General Sayings

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Living in New York is like being at a party where you're not sure if you're invited or not.

A true friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

The public is a thick-skinned beast, and you have to club it soundly to get any attention at all.

I taste a liquor never brewed — From Tankards scooped in Pearl — Not all the Vats upon the Rhine Yield such an Alcohol!

The only way out is through.

How we need a a good long talk. I'm afraid I shall have to go to a psychoanalyst.

No matter what, I'm always going to be a Catholic.

I'm a poet, for Chrissake. I'm not a politician.

After a sex experience, you are either a man or a woman. Not both.

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

Progress is the only fit for a man. Without progress, he's a dead man.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Don't try to understand it. Just accept it. Or reject it. But don't try to understand it.

Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.

The most improper things are always done in the most proper places.

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.