I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans..

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it..

Write a page a day. It will add up..

This is an excellent martini — sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud..

Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young Man Who Was. Let us drink to his drea….

The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot..

A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight..

The Talmud: Heart's Blood of the Jewish Faith..

... talk, not sex, constitutes most of the intercourse between a man and his wife..

When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout..

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate w….

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today..

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate ….

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth..

The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history..

My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live..

Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more and more..

Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime..

The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I never did see a meager Hollywood….

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge..

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality..