When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.
Wolfgang HildesheimerThe riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work.
Wolfgang HildesheimerEverything that happens is at least one dimension smaller than you've imagined it to be.
Wolfgang Hildesheimer