All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this.

Never schedule a board meeting on Wednesday because it kills two weekends.

After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in 1933, this was seen as such an emergency that human rights had to be suspended. The attack on the World Trade Towers has allowed Bush and his gang to do anything. What are we to do now? I say when there's a code red, we should all run around like chickens with our heads cut off. I don't feel that we are in any great danger.

I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.

They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun... They were dressed half for battle, half for tennis or croquet.

Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.

Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.