Richard McKenna quotes:

Being dead is being weak and walled off.

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

I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.

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.

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

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