You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.