I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art..

I know the most important faculty to develop is one for hard, continuous and varied work and living; but the difference between knowing this and doin….

When he ran from a cop, his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint . . . wer….

I suspect the fault...is in me: that I hate any job on earth, as a job and a hindrance and a semi-suicide..

For in the immediate world, everything is to be discerned, for him who can discern it, and central and simply, without either dissection into science….

Of those that are drawn away, each is drawn elsewhere toward another: once more a man and a woman, in a loneliness they are not liable at that time t….

I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive..

I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his 'limits' of fully 'realizing' his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and….

By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on quilts, on the grass in a summ….

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in wit….

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child..

In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him….

And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near, by the unwarned c….

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning o….

And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this sho….

Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that f….

Seems as unfounded ... to say there isn't a God as to say there is..

Just spunk won't be enough; you've got to have gumption..

It's kind of a test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens, then you have your choice. You s….

It is clear enough by now to most people that the camera never lies is a foolish saying. Yet it is doubtful whether most people realize how extraordi….

Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't..