For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.

To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new. Even Matisse painted some of his Fauvist pictures in anxiety. Maybe that helped him to simplify. Character, discipline, negative capability count. Write, complete, revise. If it doesn't work, begin something else.

All men are Jews, though few men know it.