War makes its own morals.

Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.

Even while you're in dead earnest about your work, you must approach it with a feeling of freedom and joy; you must be loose-jointed, like a relaxed athlete.

Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.

I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you want to be wholly in the world you are writing about, that it would take two days to get the visitor's voice out of the house so that you could listen to your own characters again?

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.

"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera."