Henning Mankell

"Die Stille nach dem Ausbruch war ohrenbetäubend."

"Es kann zuweilen von Vorteil sein, rückwärts zu gehen wie der Krebs."

"Leben hat seine Zeit, und Sterben hat seine Zeit."

"Manche Menschen werden von Hähnen geweckt, andere davon, dass die Stille zu groß ist."

"Oder lassen sich Träume nicht wieder zu neuem Leben erwecken? Vielleicht bleiben Träume wie Menschen auf immer tot."

"She expressed herself clearly, as only people who talk a lot to themselves can."

"Human beings worked constantly to make their gods unnecessary. He was an individual who made scientific measurements: one day time and perhaps also space would be measured and controlled by scales of measurements hitherto unknown. The supernatural was shadows dancing in the remains of a childhood fear of the dead."

"Averno was my homage to Mankell. I tried to use something from one of his books in every one of the poems. Nobody noticed it, which is good, but it was there for me."