Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue.

Success, like fashion, is a fickle companion and can leave one in the wink of an eye.

I could only wonder again at the white race's naïveté in always sending forth our worst members as our emissaries.

But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own history books, each containing a story they could not pass on to others and from which no one would learn anything of value.

Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not rush across town to do good deeds, and in Hackberry's view, there was no more odious taint on any social or political endeavor than universal approval.

There is no higher form of artistic expression then film

How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?