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.

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

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.

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

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.

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