Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect..

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his informa….

Not too many people work in a job where, waiting out there are three or four hundred people who are paid to tear apart what you've done. And often th….

The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United Sta….

I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done ver….

We risk great peril if we kill off this spirit of adventure, for we cannot predict how and in what seemingly unrelated fields it will manifest itself….

During my lifetime I have met dozens of writers and photographers in dozens of different countries. But I have encountered no one who could both writ….

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it..

I feel myself the inheritor of a great background of people. Just who, precisely, they were, I have never known. I might be part Negro, might be part….

I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heri….

. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that if….

a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor..

I think the bottom line is that if you get through a childhood like mine, it's not at all bad. Obviously, you come out a pretty tough turkey, and you….

For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, what you north….

We are never prepared for what we expect..

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow..

As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned a lot about my trad….

The sense of belonging is one of the great gifts men get in battle..

I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty..

A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again..

Things are going to go wrong, and I think we are false to life if we don’t portray it. But there is also the hope that some lucky clown is going to c….