The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

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.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.