"I'm a writer of the people. I don't write for the critics. I write for the people."

"My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight."

"Good fences make good neighbors."

"I am not a liberal. I am a radical. I am as radical as anything you ever saw."

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."