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.

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

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.

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

Politics isn't in my nature.

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.

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