Occupation: Writer Birth: January 14, 1919 Death: November 4, 2011
I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing..
I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved..
No one ever writes a book in which he is the bad guy..
We should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own. We should not have attacked Ira….
We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers..
Numbers are the most certain things we have..
Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins..
When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment..
I've learned... That you should never say no to a gift from a child..
I've learned... That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them..
I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who suggest they like our country more than I do. Some people's idea of patriotism is hating other countries..
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens..
I know a lot of you believe that most people in the news business are liberal. Let me tell you, I know a lot of them, and they were almost evenly div….
Familiar things are a comfort to us all..
Everyone hates war, everyone says..
I try to look nice. I comb my hair, I tie my tie, I put on a jacket, but I draw the line when it comes to trimming my eyebrows. You work with what yo….
I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help s….