Among all the nonsense, mistakes, and bad ideas we come up with, maybe some truth will sneak in.

— Henning Mankell

An African who loses the ability to die with dignity is a lost man.

— Henning Mankell

At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country.

— Henning Mankell

Dreams can be of value even if you don’t have an opportunity to turn them into reality.

— Henning Mankell

He was religious, but had refrained from allowing his religious ideals to be obscured by a god.

— Henning Mankell

I am constantly reminded that we human beings are basically storytellers. More homo warrant than Homo sapiens. We see ourselves in others' stories. Every genuine work of art contains a small fragment of glass from a mirror.

— Henning Mankell

I am fascinated by all the new technology that creates places for us to meet in what is called cyberspace. I understand what it must have meant for the rebellions in the 19th century, especially in 1830 and 1848, when the mass circulated newspaper became so important for the spreading of information.

— Henning Mankell

I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.

— Henning Mankell

I ask myself every day what my life is doing to me and I realize I don't have anybody I can talk to."" You should have" said the Doctor "everybody should.

— Henning Mankell

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 anymore; it was at that moment I became an author.".]

— Henning Mankell