Second we find in our prerevolutionary society definite and indeed very bitter class antagonisms, though these antagonisms seem rather more complicated than the cruder Marxists will allow.

Science is based not on faith but in skeptism

It is almost safe to say that no government is likely to be overthrown until it loses the ability to make adequate use of its military.

These revolutions are born of hope, and their philosophies are formally optimistic.

If thee marries for money thee surely will earn it.

I suppose if I didn't write for a living and it couldn't be published, I would have wanted to write anyway. I think there's something about the act of writing that organizes thoughts and memories.

You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise.

The leader finds the dream and then the people. The people find the leader and then the dream.

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way.

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.