You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.

I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.

In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.