You write to find out what you believe.

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access

Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.

The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .. Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’

You write to find out what you believe.