I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our Bartlett's.

If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come…

I think the destiny of all men is not to sit in the rubble of their own making but to reach out for an ultimate perfection which is to be had. At the moment, i…

I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've writt…

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he write…

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.

''Write what you know' is a tautology. You have no choice -- you have to write what you know, and in order to write something new, you have to learn something …