There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.

The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.

Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.

Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.

So long, Lee. Give our regards to the Kaiser. And tell him there's a few boys on 58th Street who'll throw a party for him if he'll drop around.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true and the opposite is probably equally true.

Be happy you guys. Be proud! You know what you are: you're God's frozen people.

Morality is a personal matter.

If you are working from your inbox, you are working on other people’s priorities.

We are going to be working very hard on the inner cities having to do with education, having to do with crime. We're going to try and fix as quickly as possible.

There’s obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

I'm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.

It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.

If I want my time wasted, I'll waste it myself.

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

I choose to think of tv audience as nameless, formless, faceless people who are all like me. And anything that I write, if I like it, they'll like it.