I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order – poetry = the best words in the best order. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union. – Aldrich Ames
I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times. – Sam Sheppard
