Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane.

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 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.

Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness.

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric.

Use your time, energy and talents to do the best you can right now. Spend no time wishing it were better

Sexy means loving someone you donot know.

I look at my career and it's still hard for me to believe the way things turned out and how things happened. I've been so blessed.

Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.

Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.

Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra.

If nothing is declared unchangeable, then the organization will resist all change.