MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.

There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.

You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.

The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.

A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character.