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

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.

A writer is nothing but a gray dirt-covered root. The works he sends up into the sunlight are his fruits, and only those are worthy of attention.

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

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.

This life is slow suicide, unless you read.

This is an excellent martini — sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.