That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.

Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream.

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.

I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.