If you want to keep a friend, never test him.

A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.

I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.... The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?

If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind-but he must get there first.

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.