What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.

Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

When you find a truth that surpasses your desire to fit trends and meet approval, you can be certain it’s worth fighting to spread.

Oh, yes. I'm terribly smart. Wouldn't it have been nice... to be intelligent?

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.

What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.

I always loved the challenge. When something new happened, I always used to get quite excited.

When you're really tested, that's what shows you who you are as a person.

Pain ... after you've lived with it long enough, isn't pain anymore. It's something else.

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.

Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.