Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

Just set one day's work in front of the last day's work. That's the way it comes out. And that's the only way it does.

Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species. --speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1962

Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope. So that today, St. John the apostle may well be paraphrased: In the end is the Word, and the Word is Man - and the Word is with Men.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.