The Purpose Of Freedom Is To Create

I Am Somewhat Of A Meliorist. That Is To Say, I Act As An Optimist Because I Find I Cannot Act At All, As A Pessimist. One Often Feels Helpless In The Face Of The Confusion Of These Times, Such A Mass Of Apparently Uncontrollable Events And Experiences To Live Through, Attempt To Understand, And If At All Possible, Give Order To; But One Must Not Withdraw From The Task If He Has Some Small Things To Offer - He Does So At The Risk Of Diminishing His Humanity.

Charity You Can Give Even When You Haven't Got.

What Suffering Has Taught Me Is The Uselessness Of Suffering.

Overnight Business Could Go Down Enough To Hurt; Yet As A Rule It Slowly Recovered-sometimes It Seemed To Take Forever-went Up, Not High Enough To Be Really Up, Only Not Down.

First Drafts Are For Learning What Your Novel Or Story Is About. Revision Is Working With That Knowledge To Enlarge And Enhance An Idea, To Re-form It.... The First Draft Of A Book Is The Most Uncertain-where You Need Guts, The Ability To Accept The Imperfect Until It Is Better.