Man without mysticism is a monster.

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.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

The heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

Old as he was, he still missed his daddy sometimes.

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

The physical stuff of a movie is difficult. It's one of those things where it's just harder than it looks.

It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.

A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.