When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

I have no warm up exercises, other than to take an occasional drink.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by waging it... Where does security lie, anyway - security against the thief, a bad man, the murderer? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government.

When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great strain. Writers care greatly how a thing is said - it makes all the difference. So they are constantly faced with too many choices and must make too many decisions.