When someone says to me, Ugh, you smoke. I reply, Ugh, you're ugly. I can quit smoking.

I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.

On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in the [New] Mexican desert. Success beyond all dreams crowded this sombre, magnificent venture of our American allies. The detailed reports ... could leave no doubt in the minds of the very few who were informed, that we were in the presence of a new factor in human affairs, and possessed of powers which were irresistible.

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.

He is like a female llama surprised in her bath.