A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not.

Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not.

The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later.

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.

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.