I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.