On one occasion I went to Afghanistan to look at the borders and learn something about the situation there to see if my book was there?and it wasnt.

All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.

After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something or someone other than themselves.

To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at his post in the thick of fire to serve the cause of mankind.

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?

You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer

The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.

A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.

Like will to like each creature loves his kind.

Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect.

The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

Small children and unruly people who are demanding attention.

To cheat a man isnothing; but the womanmust have fine parts indeed who cheats a woman!

In every woman's wardrobe, there are certain accessories that cannot be separated from their back stories.

I don't think I ever wore anything that was like really ugly, I just didn't really care.

Either you have your dreams or you live your dreams.