The best thing we have is sleep, of course, and what is sleep except the putting aside of everything tentative for another interval of final and everlasting truth? Sleep isn't dying, but it is certainly keeping in tough with it.

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as a large thing, one of the biggest events in the legend of the man, something general, involving multitudes.

When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.

Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.

Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.