“Sanity? Sorry, but I don't remember having such a useless thing in the first place.”

“Sanity? Sorry, I don't ever remember having something like that before.”

“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.”

“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.”

“I don't like remembering. Remembering makes me feel things. I don't like feeling things.”

“I remember one time - it might have been a couple times - at the Fillmore East in 1970, I was opening for this sorry-ass cat named Steve Miller. Steve Miller didn't have his shit going for him, so I'm pissed because I got to open for this non-playing motherfucker just because he had one or two sorry-ass records out. So I would come late and he would have to go on first and then we got there we smoked the motherfucking place, everybody dug it.”

“I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author."[As quoted in the author biography on Mankell's official website.]”