Each husband gets the infidelity he deserves.

No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.

Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time.

Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.

pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future.

Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.

Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.

There's no privacy for the violently dead.

A country inn is a percolator. News seeps, simmers, and bubbles.

Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

Sleep in a world, your final sleep has woken

I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job.

I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go-or got careless and crushed it.

You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on.

Back in my rummy days, I would tremble and shake for hours upon arising. It was the only exercise I got.

Music criticism should be to musicians what ornithology is to the birds.