Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.

In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine.

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.