God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.

Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If you’re not an artist, at least you can do a good day’s work.

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose your self-worth in the process.

I turned my pain into art and my hard work into a career. Helping myself has helped others. helping others has helped me.

Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself.

Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.

The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later.

I have eaten too many types of cuisines and food. For me, every dish has their own taste and story. I can't pick the best dish I've ever had, simply because I enjoy all food types!

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain.

I helped Ben with the third edition of Security Analysis, published in 1951.