There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

What I learned constructive about women is that no matter how old they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

You lose it if you talk about it.

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof crap detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.

... someday the silver cord will break.

Man is not made for defeat.

Man is not made for defeat.

Everybody has something wrong with them.