“That which is possible is inevitable.”

“For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.”

“Evil is inevitable,' Reuben quoted, 'in the course of a creation which develops with time.”

“The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”

“Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.”

“Critics do not have the satisfaction of working on things that actually exist, like sick dogs or dental cavities. So they are tempted to pluck a virtue out of necessity and claim that they toil in an altogether superior realm, that of the imagination. This implies, rather oddly, that things which do not exist are inevitably more precious than those that do, which is a fairly devastating comment on the latter. What kind of a world is it in which possibility is unquestionably preferable to actuality?”