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" There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem. "

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" Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. "

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" Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better or worse, we are what we are, and the only danger to our comfort is external. "

" What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke? "

" In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are. "

" My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.' "

" Gossip is conversation about people. "

" World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name. "

" My father had lifelong contempt for politicians. "

" A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive. "

" Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences. "

" The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die. "

" Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now. "

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

" Does one ever read a politician's books? "

" As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I've always been very pro-African-American - or whatever phrase we now use. "

" Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. "

" I hate nobody. "

" To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy. "

" There are so many things the people who take polls never get around to asking. "

" What I like least about myself is my belligerence. "

" Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: 'Why, that's us up there, and aren't we - for all our little foibles - pretty nice guys and gals?' "

" It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer. "

" 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. "

" I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar - and not dissimilar - sphere of operations. "

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

" Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves. "

" Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly. "

" I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that's the last thing I wanted. "