Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say, and I’m terrified our hiding place will be discovered and that we’ll be shot.
Perhaps the act of writing is necessary when nothing happens.
Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?
Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.
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.
Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.
A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.
Take a leap of faith. You will either land somewhere new or learn to fly.
There is a difference between conceit and confidence.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
A successful director is someone who has the combination of skills that you can learn, but there's also an intuitive sensibility that they bring to it, that they've developed on their own and that is singular to them.