When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint were as distinct and as soberly in...

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.

This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture--none of it under the right people.

Now is the night one blue dew.

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without...

I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive."

God doesn't believe in the easy way.

We are the same before God.

When we try something new we tend to make mistakes.

Imagination rules the world

Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers,...

People don't fall in love because of gravity.

Stupidity has got no limits.

As a whole part of 'psychological education' it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that 'adjustment' to a sick and insane environment is of itself not...

We cannot expect different results by repeating the same mistakes again and again.

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws.

Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.