"Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian."

“My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.”

“When Ivy [Wilkes] begins her work in forgery, she doesn't yet know the toll that it will take on her own original work. She even thinks it might be a way to find inspiration. By the time she realizes that she has lost her own voice, she is thoroughly entangled in the forgery mess.”

“Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.”

“I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy.”

Source : Last words, October 16, 1946.

“Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does. But it doesn't necessarily have to come in big packages of 600-page treaties.”

“Let's say tomorrow that there was a president, that we elected a president that eliminated the bulk collection of data. Let's just say it happened. What do you think would happen? People are like 'the sky would fall. We would be overrun with jihadists.' Maybe we could rely on the Constitution. Maybe we could get warrants. ... If you make the warrant specific, there's no limit to what you can get through a warrant.”

“There never was a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.”

Source : "Can you give the public what it wants?" by Edgar Dale, 1967.

“Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.”

Source : "The Ultimate Writer's Guide to Hollywood" by Skip Press, (p. 199), 2004.