In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.

The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.

All of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of us dead than alive.

I can't start writing until I have a closing line.

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.

Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.