Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale

I react to what is necessary. I would like to eschew any formula.

In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.

The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.