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

- James Agee

The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.

- James Agee

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

- James Agee

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

- James Agee

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…

- James Agee

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…

- James Agee

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

- James Agee

The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to perceive the aesthetic reality within the ac…

- James Agee

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

- James Agee