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" I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape. "

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" Never have children, only grandchildren. "

" Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead. "

" Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda. "

" I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent. "

" The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining. "

" In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative. "

" Why not just eliminate the federal income tax? "

" Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale. "

" Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age. "

" Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. "

" Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others. "

" It's odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, 'I've been reading you all my life.' It makes you feel a slight chill. "

" During the late '50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist. "

" Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there. "

" I am not, at heart, a playwright. "

" Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East. "

" What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist. "

" When I say 'president,' I still mean Roosevelt - wisely, I think. "

" Most children tell themselves stories in which they figure as powerful figures, enjoying the pleasures not only of the adult world as they conceive it but of a world of wonders unlike dull reality. "

" I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place. "

" Every country should have at least one King Farouk. "

" There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. "

" I can understand companionship. "

" The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted. "

" In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it. "

" There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. "

" It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars. "

" Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at the galaxy's edge... there is all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. No thing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all. "

" Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off. "

" Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone. "