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.

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.