A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.

All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.

After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something or someone other than themselves.

To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at his post in the thick of fire to serve the cause of mankind.

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?

You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer

The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.

A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.

It's all about energy

Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

He sounded absolutely miserable. “Are you ever going to speak to me?

There are more blessings in the book of your destiny than your negative thoughts and beliefs are suggesting.

Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship.

The more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice.

Fashion is one of the most beautiful forms of art we have. It's a form of art that every person gets to possess and create for themselves.

A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet

Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts.

Actually the best thing I did was to get thrown out by my wife. She's living with a fitness instructor. He drinks that yellow stuff in tins. He's an idiot.