Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

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.

And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.

It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.

Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.

It seems to me Montana is a great splash of grandeur. The scale is huge but not overpowering. The land is rich with grass and color, and the mountains are the kind I would create if mountains were ever put on my agenda.

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.