How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

Pictures... are also opinions... [they] set down what the camera operator sees and he sees what he wants to see and what he loves and hates and pities and is proud of.

Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the brave and independent and generous. If our ancestors had not been that, they would have stayed in their home plots in the other world and starved over the squeezed-out soil.

Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.

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

Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.