The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I never did see a meager Hollywood caper called Youngblood Hawke, vaguely based on my 800-page novel. So it was that I opted for television, with its much broader time limits, for The Winds of War.

... a war always ends.

I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.

When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we are orthodox, conservative, reform or merely spasmodic sentimentalists-we follow the Talmud. It is our common Law.

Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more and more.

Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.