"As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things." ― Gunter Grass Topic(s): Great More From Gunter Grass "I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours." "My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm’s fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of ‘Tom Thumb’ during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see." "I don’t believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it’s not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o’clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music." More In Great "It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time."― Samuel Johnson "Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war."― John Adams "Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam."― Muqtada al Sadr