Quotes from Sten Nadolny

This gigantic figure grew effortlessly in his dream, emerging from the deceptively eternal expanse of the horizon; it was like a truth that would make everything different. A crater opened up towards heaven, a mouth or a gorge. Perhaps the whole thing was a leviathan, perhaps a dance of millions of tiny creatures.

That's because the most competent among them will always try to change that small part of the world which they know. One of these days they'll discover the world instead of improving it, and not forget what they already discovered.

Nothing can be predicted. Nobody can give a reason why something happened in this way and not in another. Stronger than all predictions are coincidence and contradiction.' John

Between overstatement and understatement lies one hundred per cent.

Darum geht es nicht!" antwortete Eleanor. Dieser Satz machte Franklin Sorge, denn seit der Zeit mit Flora Reed wusste er nur zu gut: ein Streit, bei dem einer dem anderen erklärte, worum es ging, war ausweglos.

Listening to Aunt Eliza, one could learn that when people talk too fast the content becomes as superfluous as the speed.