There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

You cant get very far in this world without your dossier being there first.

The job is to ask questions - it always was - and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.