There are very few instances where writers have also been effective image makers - different skill sets are required.
It's no use crying over spilt summits.
I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.
I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.
A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber.
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
If I knew how to write a poem, I wouldn't.
I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I was tired, but work had become pure enjoyment.
We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.