Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.

Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.

The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.

I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.

I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble - you know the yarn about the centipede who was asked how he managed all his feet? He tried to answer, stopped to think about it, and was never able to walk another step.

On the steps of the Federal Building we ran into Carmencita Ibanez, a classmate of ours and one of the nice things about being a member of a race with two sexes.

My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases myself.