Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.

... talk, not sex, constitutes most of the intercourse between a man and his wife.

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.

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.

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

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

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