You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much.