We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.

A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight.

The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.

I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

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.