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.

What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.

There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go.

These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of the poppies.

I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.

I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.

There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.