Michael O'Donoghue was a very close friend of mine - very encouraging with my stuff, and really a great guy - but he was a no-kidding difficult person.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

A lot of things work better in a locomotive.

The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.

Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.

I don't think I'll ever be a real boat reporter. My Rolex isn't big enough.