There is in us all that line that prevents us from fully understanding those who are different.

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.

How much time? Not as much as I had yesterday.

Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.

Whose empire did you just overthrow?" My own.

Mind is like an archaeologist, it can only dissect and research dead things, events on how, when, where & why. It can never be on the NOW. Only BEING is capable to be in the NOW and EXPERIENCE!

Life without decency is unbearable.

How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses.

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them.

It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation (particularly if you're the lucky manager).