My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to Germany.

No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.

It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.

Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.

Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

I went to high school in Indianapolis I learned how to walk around looking tough because everybody had to do that. I go out there occasionally and they're still doing it, walking around looking very tough because something might happen.