When I read it ["Tough Guys Don't Dance"], I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.
You can indulge your righteous rage but the things it comes out of are pretty cheap. The trick is to make yourself an instrument of your own policy. Whether you like it or not, that's the highest effectiveness man has achieved.
Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.
The true religion of America has always been America.
The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.