The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.

This is an excellent martini — sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one.

This life is slow suicide, unless you read.

Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.

You can’t make someone your everything because when they are gone you have nothing left.

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

We can’t answer King’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

Nature intended in her design a hearty life of toil, open fires and plump old age attended by a brood of sun-touched brats.

Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser.

This is a job and we want to have fun. But it's a job and we should look like we're going to work.

Swimming isn't everything - winning is.

None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.