“Nobody understood how to use television for his own purposes better th...” — Michael Korda Quote

“Nobody understood how to use television for his own purposes better than Nixon, despite his poor showing against John F. Kennedy in the televised presidential debate.”

“In the Roman world, and in the worlds around it that Romans sought to subdue and control, the gods were merciless, frivolous, prone to set traps for humans, and largely indifferent to the unprivileged bulk of humankind, who in any case did not expect their fate in the afterworld to be any better than it had been on earth.”

“It used to be that the highest ambition of American novelists was to write 'the Great American Novel,' that great white whale of American fiction that would encompass all the American experience in one great book.”

“I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?”

“In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.”

“We've become more tolerant because we're tired of the debate.”