There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.

He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

I've written about Powers Hapgood. He was a Harvard graduate, son of a wealthy family who owned a cannery out there. After leaving Harvard, he went to work in coal mines and then was a CIO executive when I met him there, in Indianapolis.

I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.

The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.