There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes.

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin.

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.

If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.

Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth .

I am an acquired taste. Do with that what you will.

I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.

I don't think you should ever damage other people for your art.

Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.

When starting at the bottom, be willing to learn from those at the top.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

All Freemasonry should be disbanded in America because our organization has been infiltrated by the Illuminati and they have bad intention for America and the World.

I think that nobody - certainly in this world - can say that they don't have the human denial element about them or fear or whatever it is as juxtaposed with faith and hope and freedom and love.

Hearts don't often break even. One person is usually more hurt while the other is more relieved.

We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail.