Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.[...]It's slow. It rots out your guts.

I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.

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.

I nearly always write — just as I nearly always breathe.

But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.