Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

We see through others only when we see through ourselves.

It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and on the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequal initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.

Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.