My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.

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.

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

Strong SPIRITS are usually liberated from the burden of their pain through forgiveness and letting go. EGO usually holds onto grudges and is the source of destruction by acting on impulse.

YOUR STRONGEST COMPETITORS ARE YOUR PAST PERFORMANCES.

A genius in the wrong position could look like a fool.

You can learn a little bit from everybody, so you should be able to work a bit with everybody.

A happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

Nothing can stop you from thinking. The human mind is designed to think continually.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

I maintain that to-day many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practise the dull craft of experimental psychology.

No one has a perfect life. Everybody has something that he wishes was not the way it is.