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

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

I'll do what little I can in writing. Only it will be very little. I'm not capable of it; and if I were, you would not go near it at all. For if you did, you would hardly bear to live

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.

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 extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is.

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

Well, now, some people learn a little quicker than others. It's nice to learn fast but it's nice to take your time too.