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Americans have no sense of history. And not much memory. They don't remember what happened yesterday.

Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever

I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]

Geronimo [is] ... an example of our practice of destroying those who oppose us and then honoring them.

The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.

Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.

Only people who suffer show the ravages of age.

Like most thoughtful people who watch what's going on in Washington, venting is very necessary.

A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.

In L.A., you work like hell because there is nothing else to do, unless you're cheating on your wife.

My books were attacked constantly by the Communist Party for not hewing to the Party line. I have never hewed to a Party line of any kind.

The only thing that infuriates me is that I have more unwritten stories in me than I can conceivably write in a lifetime.

The Rosenberg case had been orchestrated to an anti-Communist frenzy that matched the exuberant hysteria of the Nazi horror.

A man who will traduce those who stood with him in battle is not worth much.

I am a Zen Buddhist - but that is not to be thought of as a religion in

It's been said that I am the most widely read writer of the 20th century. The number of books I've sold runs into untold millions.

I suppose I have cause you grief and misery at times, but I have never intentionally caused you embarrassment and discomfort.

The easiest way to hide a relationship is not to attempt to hide it.

You seem damn sure of yourself for a man your age?"
"I am as old as I can be at my age. I don't know very much, but I know the water.

Man is a part of God, or else he is a beast; and beasts know love and fear and hate and hunger
but not exultation

When military men take over, honest men dance to the strings they pull.
Your life is no longer your own.

Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.

Let us say that kindness costs me so little and rewards me well.

I'm disenchanted with Communism and most other things. I'm cynical but not a cynic. I'm cynical about TV, Congress, and commercial peanut butter.

The play is a marvelous form, but it demands less than a novel.

I was born and grew up in the greatest, the noblest achievement of the human race on this planet - which was called the United States of America.