Nicknames are fond names. We do not give them to people we dislike.

A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.

When a new post-war generation has grown to puberty and to youth and to manhood and womanhood, it should read, and it should be realistically told, of the futility, the idiocy, the utter depravity of war. For that matter, this instruction could begin at the age of six with the taking of those toy guns out of those toy holsters and throwing them in the ash-cans where they belong.

Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.

Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.

Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?

There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.