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

- Richard Mckenna

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

- Richard Mckenna

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 …

- Richard Mckenna

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

- Richard Mckenna

Being dead is being weak and walled off.

- Richard Mckenna