Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

No one ever stopped when they were winning.

There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers.

In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.

The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.

We wait always for something that does not come.