Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.

Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.

Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.

If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.

Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.