Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.
Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.