If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.
Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said, or even what we never said, will cause laughter even into the next world.
I believe in the fatal hairdo just for the love of saying fatal hairdo.
I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.