... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job.

Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent.

New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.

You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.

... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job.

The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.

I hadn't the personality to be a long-term Success.