Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.

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.

In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.

Some men you stick to right off. But it's those that take time to stick that stick longest.

We fit, you and I, ” he whispered looking into that haunting gaze. “Two broken pieces making a whole.

...the most important thing you must remember when dealing with a politically biased professor is to be friendly.

Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday - it's a day that's American to the core and it's a day that's all about what and how we eat.

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.

Discover the tools to build your own vision.

This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.

It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action