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

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

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

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

About the nicest thing God ever invented was alcohol. He's proud of it, too. The Bible's full of kind remarks about booze.

The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.

War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.