Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.

I try to stay in good physical shape, I don't smoke, I don't drink.

Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.

I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead.

Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.