Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved. Be something more than man or woman. Be Tandy.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

Though man needs to live to believe, he does not need to believe to live.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.

Not everything in my life has been pretty.

To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get.

If you can get out in front of people with your ideas and your execution, you'll attract the people who need to be pulled in.