This is an excellent martini — sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.
Herman WoukI learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
Herman WoukI think it's a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot's in its thickest, all the characters are in a mess, but you can see that there aren't fifty pages left, and you know that the finish can't be far off.
Herman WoukThe 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.
Herman Wouk