Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

A writer is trying to create believable people in credible moving situations in the most moving way he can.

A gentleman can live through anything.

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.