Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product..

Being dead is being weak and walled off..

My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in … the little town in which I grew up. … Quite early I began to find a special charm ….

The way to get killed around machinery was to take things for granted..

You can't just plain die. You got to do it by the book..