"If he could just stay there and gaze upon the land like a stone, whole centuries long, while grassy plains became for…"

"He didn't want to learn another thing. Motionless, he constantly stared at the same spot, unseeing. He breathed as if…"

"Es gibt zwei Sorten von Männern. Die einen verstehen 'etwas von Frauen', die anderen sind solche, die einfach 'Frauen…"

"The most distant mountains, like himself, just stood there and gazed."

"The game went on. John had understood nothing. Everything was too fast: the game, the other's talk, the goings-on in …"

"How did Tom get there? Again, a piece of time had dropped out."

"Someday he'd be quicker... to be like the sun, which only seems to wander slowly across the sky, yet whose rays are a…"

"Large animals, John thought, move more slowly than mice and wasps. Perhaps he was secretly a giant."

"In this place they knew him and were aware of how hard he had to strain. He would rather be among strangers who might…"

"When people talk too fast the content becomes as superfluous as the speed."