My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death.

..why is it that in problematic situations almost everyone resorts to axioms and societal remedies that in actuality almost nobody believes in?...ask yourself, have you ever known anyone whose marriage was saved by a marriage counselor, whose drinking was cured by a psychiatrist, whose son was kept out of reform school by a social worker?

Success, like fashion, is a fickle companion and can leave one in the wink of an eye.

I feel blessed in the knowledge that I probably belong to the last generation that will remember what we call "traditional America."

I think the "crime novel" has replaced the sociological novel of the 1930s. I think the progenitor of that tradition is James M. Cain, who in my view is the most neglected writer in American literature.

There's no substitute for loyalty.

Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue.