I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

I feel myself the inheritor of a great background of people. Just who, precisely, they were, I have never known. I might be part Negro, might be part Jew, part Muslim, part Irish. So I can't afford to be supercilious about any group of people because I may be that people.

There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

A group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.

Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect.

Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis.

Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to go through the work of getting the damn book out. There is a huge difference.