A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.

I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.

I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism.

In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.

I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.

The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.

When you don't know where to start, just go to a place you miss so much.

You always play it open, don’t you?” he asked.“I’ve never noticed you doing otherwise.”“I thought I was the only one who could afford to.

I'll give up my bad habits as soon as equally satisfying good habits become available.

I think it can be fun to write about relationships just because so many people can relate to what you are feeling.

I am Midnight (cats stare dumbfounded)

And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate.

Bloody Facebook- and to think I'd enjoyed The Social Network. Clearly Mark Zuckerberg was the devil.

We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.

Value gives the artist the means of showing subtle changes in a form's surface-state, and it helps clarify the relative distance between forms.

Another important aspect is that the masters taught us to move from a deeper source,not just from muscles and joints.