Dying can't be all that difficult-up to now everyone has managed to do it.

I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow, obviously.

Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk and squeeze words out of yourself.

...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.

Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself.

Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.

Every one of my books had killed me a little more.