Every so often, in the midst of chaos, you come across an amazing, inexplicable instance of civic responsibility. Maybe the last shred of faith people have is in their firemen.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.

He hadn't killed nearly as many people as I had. But then again, he hadn't had my advantage, which was the full cooperation of our Government.

Good writing is true writing. If a man is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is

To reach a target, you must never see it as unreachable!

Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.

Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.

The entertainment business is to business what plastic flowers are to flowers.

It's really not important what my personal life is.

Once you savor God's goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.

There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty.