Some people, when they're called before the police, like nothing better than to spill everything, fact and fiction alike, hoping to create a good impression.

When I was young, I could bounce back from things like a brand-new rubber ball.

It's a dangerous dog that doesn't bark.

Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.

A plausible rumor / Seems a lot more believable / Than the truth itself.

Some people, when they're called before the police, like nothing better than to spill everything, fact and fiction alike, hoping to create a good impression.

A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.