Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States.

After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really.