77 Quotes by Walter Moers

The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.

On horseback you feel as if you’re moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk.

Wenn es sein muss, trete ich auch Zwerge!

Lesen ist eine intelligente Methode, sich selber das Denken zu ersparen.

Beneath me lay the Lake of Oblivion, above me loomed Insanity.

I could hear it from far away, that sound which only very big cities can produce: a sound consisting of all sounds rolled into one: the hum of voices and the cries of animals, bells ringing and the chink of coins, children’s laughter and hammers beating metal, knives and forks clattering and a thousand doors slamming – the grandiose sound of life, of birth and death, itself.

There are worse things in life than dragons. Falling in love, for instance.

When bad habits become a habit, you have to turn over a new leaf.

I was in a bibliophile’s Eylsium.