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.

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.'(on Ernest Hemingway.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

Wanton stars galloped neighing like unicorns in blue meadows.