I just write whenever I can.

Sometimes the title is the last thing that comes to me. Sometimes it's the first.

[His characters] are always 7 feet tall and invincible, mine are 5 feet 8 and nervous.

The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

This year [1930], when we all needed something to take our minds off our troubles, miniature golf did it . . . . If we cannot find bread, we are satisfied with the circus.