When I look at small things, I think I shall go on living: drops of rain, leather gloves shrunk by being wet... When I look at something too big, I want to die: the Diet Building, or a map of the world.

Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening.

Yet there seemed to be some truth in the law of probability, according to which the chance of success is directly proportionate to the number of repetitions.

Time cannot be spurred on like a horse.

The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.

The minute you begin to have doubts, the floor under your feet starts to shake.

Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deeply buried rock at the bottom of the current.