The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.

America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.