I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

Your body is temple of the holy spirit.

You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country

[To Aquinas] the intellect [stands] at the summit of ... the human soul.

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.

God repeatedly uses the least-likely and least-prepared individuals (ourselves included) to make the deepest impact on our world.

I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.

In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world

France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.

Remain a witness to your emotions as if from a great distance an eagles eye view

Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.