I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.

A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.

I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.

The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally.

The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.