Quotes by : Herman Koch

I was remarkably calm. Calm and fatigued. There would be no violence. It was like a storm coming up.....

I let them do some simple arithmetic. In a group of one hundred people, how many assholes are there?....

I amazed myself, above all, with how well I was able to manage. Michel got to school on time, his teeth....

No, on the outside view there was nothing for anyone to notice about me. I remained one pillar of a trinity,....

… when Michel came home from school, for example, and everything was as it should be. My own voice,....

I sometimes heard the parents of Michel's playmates sigh about how, after a busy day, they really needed....

Something in me whispered that I needed to stop thinking, that I should above all not go too farwith....

The dilemma I was faced with was one every parent faces sooner or later: you want to defend your child,....

When the conversation turns too quickly to films,I see it as a sign of weakness.