Facing it—always facing it—that’s the way to get through. Face it!

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.

I don’t like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art, as of life.

Mistah Kurtz—he dead.

My task which I am trying to achieve is by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see. That—and no more, and it is everything.