We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.

The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

You see in others who you are.

Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.