"Take that, Mary Oliver, even Middlemarch and some Buddhists, " he slyly spoke.

[Mark Kohut]

"To Max Sebald, the marvellous writer and friend, who is no longer among
the ranks of the living, as he gazed for too long at one single blade of
grass in the meadow." —2015 Man Booker International Prize acceptance
speech by László Krasznahorkai