America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true and the opposite is probably equally true.

If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.

The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.

Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.

Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

So long, Lee. Give our regards to the Kaiser. And tell him there's a few boys on 58th Street who'll throw a party for him if he'll drop around.

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.

Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate.

The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind.

Remember that true beauty comes from within - from within bottles, jars, compacts, and lipstick tubes

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

My background is in improv and writing.

There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don’t come from that school.

I hope that I'm always satisfied and content like I am right at this very moment.

It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know.