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.

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

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

Time cannot be spurred on like a horse.

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.

Perhaps the act of writing is necessary when nothing happens.