What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.