All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.

There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.