You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.

With enough libraries, all content is free.

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.