You usually dont know what you are going to write about so you go to the places and talk to the people who were identified with the events.

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.

When you think there is nothing left to improve on, your business dies, for there is no shortage of innovators

I don't like it when people don't know the difference between their, they're, there.

I like to keep my options very open and try not to focus on trying to get something. That's just how I'm playing it and it's worked so far.

Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence.

I dare you to be great! I challenge you to be great in every single thing you do!

We are the breakers of our own hearts

Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.

I can read minds, but I'm illiterate.

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong.