If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason

By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.

Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!

In a generation or two, or maybe sooner, young golfers of true sporting instinct will wonder why all this handling of the ball is necessary. It will seem to them that the game is not as good as it might be.

My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.