I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.

I was a shadow among shadows brooding over the fate of other shadows that I alone strove to summon up out of the all-pervading dusk.

You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to end as you planned.

Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.

When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave him birth, will respond.

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.