So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.

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.

Less is less. Heartbreak is heartbreak. You think I'm sitting here gloating. Telling myself that my suffering beats yours? Hurt is hurt. You don't measure these things.

Everything I am seems to be inside my awareness, rather than my awareness being inside of me.

The undead don’t care about careers. Vampires are all retirees.

When you feel least interested in following the Way which you have entered, this may be the time when it is most appropriate for you.

Black people have been working hard for decades.

A language Older Than Words

The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.

You better be very convinced, very sure, before you pull your plug or someone else's plug, that you know what's on the other side of the gravestone.

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

He also always blesses humble beginnings much more than those accompanied by a lot of show.