Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.

Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.

If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.

Those who dream of the joys of living in a space colony should live in a space colony.

I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made -- unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.

The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.