Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.

This is an excellent martini — sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one.

This life is slow suicide, unless you read.

The past is a ghost that haunts us. Ghosts must banished. Lingering on the past is weakness, Lord Vader.

Your impact on others is the only proof of your existence

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn't admit it.

Training, a lot of the time, is just uncomfortable. But discipline is all about doing the thing that's uncomfortable.

The writer, as I see it, has the right of way, so it's up to the reader to look out.

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study - ourselves.

Life is the offspring of death.