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

Trout fishing is like any other sport. It is waste of words to try to give anyone who has never tried it any idea of what it means to land a five-pound trout on a gossamer leader.

... 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.

not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions.