I think philosophy is extremely good training for anyone who wants to do anything. Although that is an idea which people may speak scornfully of now, I think it does teach one to

To be a complete victim may be another source of power.

Being in love is an exhausting business.

We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.

We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.

There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.

any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind.