I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)

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

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.

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