I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

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.

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

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.

Competition in business is a blessing, for without it, we wouldn't be motivated to improve.

You think of outside your room, of the streets of the town, the lonely little squares over by the station, of those winter Saturdays all alike.

An unceasingly grateful life can easily heal from the wounds of hurt and setback. It can also easily shed resentment, hate, and bitterness…

Surrendering to Christ is like signing your name to a blank check and letting the Lord put in the amount.

Cassie: What would it cost me if I kissed him? What would it cost me if I didn’t?

We're in this together usually means I'm here for you, unless it requires me getting into my car anywhere near rush hour.

Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.

Sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin like a kiss on the cheek from your dad.

Hell must be a place where you are only allowed to read what you agree with.

Conservatives' views of liberals are just as distorted as ours are of conservatives.