The meaning of life is that it stops. - Franz Kafka

For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance.

August 2, 1914: Germany has declared war on Russia. Went swimming in the afternoon.

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.