I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows …

- Richard Condon

Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.

- Richard Condon

Over-eating is the most worthy of sins. It neither breaks up marriages nor causes road accidents.

- Richard Condon

The human comedy begins with a vertical smile.

- Richard Condon

In Mexico the gods ruled, the priests interpreted and interposed, and the people obeyed.In Spain, the priests ruled, the king interpreted and interpo…

- Richard Condon

I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.

- Richard Condon

Cheese. The adult form of milk.

- Richard Condon

Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of th…

- Richard Condon

Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do.

- Richard Condon