Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.

The camera is one of the greatest liars of our time.

The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.

What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.