Quotes by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!