What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad.
“I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.”
“Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.”