Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.

The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.

So long as one's just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.