I will never forget the moment when I was liberated by the American Army. I will never forget those very young boys coming up the hill, who had to take me a prisoner to liberate me. — Heinrich Boll Copy Share Image
No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been piled up on this continent called Love, without it ever having turned out to be totally investigated. — Heinrich Boll Copy Share Image
Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it or you don't. You can't… — Heinrich Böll Copy Share Image
I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you." "And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh. "I loathe the way they… — Heinrich Böll Copy Share Image
Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't… — Heinrich Boll Copy Share Image
I was born December 21, 1917, in Cologne, on the Rhine, the son of the sculptor and cabinet-maker, Viktor Boell, and his wife, Maria, nee Hermanns. — Heinrich Boll Copy Share Image
Politicians, ideologists, theologians and philosophers try time and again to provide solutions with nothing remaining: prefab solved problems. — Heinrich Boll Copy Share Image
Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as… — Heinrich Boll Copy Share Image
My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he knows German… — Heinrich Boll Copy Share Image
It's true and it's easily said that language is material, and something does materialise as one writes. — Heinrich Boll Copy Share Image
