1. “A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.”
2. “You see in other who you are.”
3. “The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.”
4. “We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.”
5. “Nationality isn’t soul.”
6. “A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.”
7. “We can’t all be friend and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.”
8. “It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.”
9. “There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.”
10. “Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.”
11. “In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.”
12. “You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.”
13. “I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.”
14. “For misery don’t blame God. he gives the food but we cook it.”
15. “Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?”
16. “Life is a tragedy full of joy.”
17. “Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.”
18. “Tomorrow is the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.”
19. “Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.”
20. “Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.”
21. “Politics isn’t in my nature.”
22. “Those who write about life, reflect about life. You see in others who you are.”
23. “A man had to learn, It was his nature.”
24. “i sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.”
25. “The past exudes legend; one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.”
26. “You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.”
27. “If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.”
28. “The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.”
29. “A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.”
30. “What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.”
