Richard McKenna Quotes

My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in … the little town in which I grew up. … Quite early I began to find a special charm in an unpeopled world … of lava rock and sagebrush desert. … I was often more purely happy at such times than I think I have ever been since.

Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product.

The way to get killed around machinery was to take things for granted.

Being dead is being weak and walled off.

You can't just plain die. You got to do it by the book.