A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.

Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

There is a need for heroism in American life today.