You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.

God can only work through those who have totally identified themselves with His will and purpose

No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the person you aspire to be.

For your kind heart Only.Darling this smile i Never show let make it warm your heart Marty B.M

There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith ... Can you reduce it to practice? If not have none of it.

Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.

I am a veteran, I fought in a war. I've been a prosecutor. I've sent people to jail for the rest of their life.

We can all be grateful that there is a place like (University of) North Texas! North Texas has been unique among schools in the country that offer jazz studies . . . quality!