... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say.
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.