Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.

All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this.

Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. 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.

Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free.

Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today.

What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.