Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.

- Walter Abish

In the past the French came to Germany less with the desire to understand it than with a zealous desire to interpret, to analyze it dispassionately s…

- Walter Abish

Is it possible for anyone in Germany, nowadays, to raise his right hand, for whatever the reason, and not be flooded by the memory of a dream to end …

- Walter Abish