I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic.

... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to take into eternity with him.

Nobody with a good car needs to be justified.

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.

I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship only what I believe to be true.” May 19, 1962