When you are around 60, there are certain things that are completely terrifying. One of them is that you have made the wrong choices in life, and now it's too late to do anything about them. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“If a policeman is serious about his profession but says he has time, he lies.” — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“There is a silence in empty houses that is unique... People have left and taken all the noise with them.” — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
My father thought, and now I think too, that the system of democracy is entirely based upon the system of justice. If we do… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight.… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“The experience he'd gained during his years in the police force had given him this unambiguous answer: there are no murderers. Only ordinary people… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“This is what Sweden is - quiet people leaning over the newspapers and coffee cups, each one with his own thoughts and destiny.” — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“Working with keys is always meaningful. Locking and opening is, in a sense, man's very purpose on this earth.” — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“La plupart des voyages dont on rêve n'ont jamais lieu. Ou alors on les accomplit intérieurement. L'avantage, quand on emprunte ces vols intérieurs, c'est… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
