I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.

It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.

You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier than anybody I know, the two will coincide.

We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. We have all jogged and panted it out the whole way.

If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West that has conditioned me. It has the forms and lights and colors that I respond to in nature and in art. If there is a western speech, I speak it; if there is a western character or personality, I am some variant of it; if there is a western culture in the small-c , anthropological sense, I have not escaped it. It has to have shaped me. I may even have contributed to it in minor ways, for culture is a pyramid to which each of us brings a stone.

There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.