A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

When you have a child, the world has a hostage.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps that would be true at the beginning. But later everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things he knows or has seen.

We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.