The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

For us there is but one crime: to be untrue to ourselves.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them

Misogyny or misandry is not a status or a belief

All topics should be studied through the lens of the Gospel.

I knew I was going to be a cellular biologist whose research would focus on scrutinizing every nuance of the cell's ultrastructure to gain insights into the secrets of cellular life.

Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.

As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself.

The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.

People hate to loose more than they love to win.

I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried.

A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.