The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go.

- Edmund De Waal

With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.

- Edmund De Waal

With languages, you are at home anywhere

- Edmund De Waal

Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I started, but I am…

- Edmund De Waal