Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.

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

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.

Many people ask why a writer commits suicide. But I think that people who ask don't know the vanity and the nothingness of writing. I think it is very usual and natural for a writer to commit suicide, because in order to keep on writing he must be a very strong person.

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.

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.