Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today?

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing.

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair

I grew up in a small, strictly-Catholic fishing village on the coast of Wales. The people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together more.

I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.

We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness.

I just made a killing in the stock market -- I shot my broker.

It is important to recognize the small successes.

Without freedom you cannot have real peace.

The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.

Silence is death. If you speak, you die. If you are silent, you die. So speak, and die.

My job isn't to strike guys out, it's to get them out - sometimes by striking them out.