In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.

This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living. The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the meloncholy time of not knowing. This is what age must learn about: The ABC of dying. The going, yet not going, The loving and leaving, And the unbearable knowing and knowing

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

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.

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

Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.