I don't ever want to be an average fourth starter. I want to be the big guy.
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.
Live while you live, then die and be done with.
The camera is one of the greatest liars of our time.
Touch water in the West and you touch everything.
New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with no-out-of bounds, the supreme expression of both the miseries and the splendors of contemporary civilization, the Macedonia of the United States. It meets the most severe test that may be applied to definition of a metropolis - it stays up all night. But also it becomes a small town when it rains.
I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.
I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty.
I do think gun control is important. I am a supporter of gun control.
There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.