“everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow”

“That's the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating the life of man in its implacable and brooding image.”

“I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.”

“Talk with a comfortable tempo - too fast sounds nervous and you might lose the audience, too slow can come across as dull-witted.”

“The night has made up its mind. It’s we who are too slow, who move in the wake of events already decided for us, who refuse, who are too weak or too simple, or are perhaps, strictly, unable to understand”

“The trouble is people leave too much to luck. They get married and then trust to luck. They should be sure in the first place.”