Milan Kundera. The slow pace (№ 212602)

Man, riding a motorcycle can focus only on the next second of his race; he clings to a piece of time separated from the past and from the future; he unplugged from the continuity of time; he is outside of it; in other words, he is in a state of ecstasy, he knows nothing about his age or about his wife, children, chores and, therefore, not afraid of anything, because the source of fear - in the future, and it is liberated from the future and he had nothing to fear.