Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

A writer is nothing but a gray dirt-covered root. The works he sends up into the sunlight are his fruits, and only those are worthy of attention.

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.

This life is slow suicide, unless you read.

... a war always ends.

The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I never did see a meager Hollywood caper called Youngblood Hawke, vaguely based on my 800-page novel. So it was that I opted for television, with its much broader time limits, for The Winds of War.