Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters we construct gigantic frail glass buildings all over Manhattan at...
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
No adult is without problems except a happy imbecile.
I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.
When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
The West Indian is not exactly hostile to change, but he is not much inclined to believe in it. This comes from a piece of wisdom that his climate of eternal summer teaches him. It is that, under all...
Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
Remember the good hours when the words are flowing well. And never mind the bad hours there is no life without them.
I think appreciating Dickens goes with ten thousand in the bank.
This life is slow suicide, unless you read.
So I have gone all the way around Robin Hood's barn to arrive at the old platitudes, which I guess is the process of growing up.
Scholars call it [the Torah] the Masoretic text. The Masoretes were Hebrew scribes of the first centuries of the present era. They fixed the wording and spelling of the Bible; since then it has not ch...
I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.
The one loophole that military wisdom can never quite button up—the sympathy of the downtrodden for each other.
It’s occurred to me that our human values, our ideas of right and wrong, good and bad, evolved in simpler times, before there were machines.
He’s too clever to be wise, if that makes any sense. Very
Life is a dream, a little more coherent than most.
This game still had its old ritual fascination for Pug; he was following it tensely, smoking a cigar. Once his nostalgia had been keen for the tough youthful combat on the grass, the slamming of bodie...
Cabs, cabs! Why did God give you feet? Walk me to Fiftieth.
Boys fight the wars. We’d have the brotherhood of man tomorrow if the politicians had to get out and fight.