We didn't starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.