Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina.
[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.
...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.
False values begin with the worship of things.
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
His view of time, and of change, has become that of most elderly people: he hates change, since for him - for his body - any change is for the worse. And if there is to be change, then he wants it to happen quickly, so it does not use up too much of the time remaining to him.