When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.

Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.

Socialism never took root in America.

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.

It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.

A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool.