Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.

You can't. You just have to.

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.