A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can look clearly; they cannot complicate the picture by worded idealisms, by saying one thing and being another; here the struggle is unmasked and the beauty is unmasked.

He never fell, never slipped back, never flew.

I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.

But you can't start over Only a boy can start over You and me Why, we're all that's been

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.

A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.