All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones.

Young men especially - I don't know if young women feel much the same - but young men think they are immortal, automatically. They have no idea of time because they have so much energy and I was like that.

Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me.

The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

In The Bob Hope Golf Classic (LWT) the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service.