People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

Did you ever have a sister? did you?

I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.

It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.

So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost. All the wrong environment will do is run his blood pressure up; he will spend more time being frustrated or outraged. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.