I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures had. I am rich with living.

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.

All you could do was hope for silence, for still air.

Healthy people live with their world.

A schmuck is a general term of disrespect. It's a term of contempt and derision. It applies to a lot of people.

The Obama experiment has failed.

I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.

I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.

What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

I ain't as good as I'm gonna get, but I'm better than I used to be.

The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to sign me for the silent movies.