The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been bombed and shelled for at the back of a bombing run is invariably a photograph. In the back of ruined towns, and cities, and factories, there is aerial mapping, or spy mapping, usually with a camera. Therefore the camera is a feared instrument, and a man with a camera is suspected and watched wherever he goes... In the minds of most people today the camera is the forerunner of destruction, and it is suspected, and rightly so.

I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.

Change was everywhere. People were gone, or changed, and that was almost like being gone.

I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.

It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.