Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity. Michael Korda Read Quote
I once attended a birthday party where Danny Kaye dropped in to entertain the birthday boy and his guests; I was sometimes taken for lunch on Saturdays by my father to The Brown Derby; and my favorite meal is still the Cobb salad in the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel. Michael Korda Read Quote
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. Michael Korda Read Quote
The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. Michael Korda Read Quote
Many years ago, I had the pleasure of editing a book by Joan Crawford, who, like Norma Desmond, was still a big star; it was just the movies that had gotten smaller. Michael Korda Read Quote
Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed. Michael Korda Read Quote
My father and his brothers never mentioned to their English wives and children that they were Jewish. Being Hungarian was exotic and foreign enough to begin with, and so long as they were not asked, they found it easier, from 1919 on, to let the matter drop. Michael Korda Read Quote
