Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.

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.

Wisdom tolerates blustered opinions, the better to dismiss them later with discovery.

As soon as they leave, Leon says to me: "I disagree, sir. There are people who aren't insane, and I'm one of them. People who generalize are mentally ill.

More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.

I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.

I wasn't able to lower my cholesterol so they put me on a statin drug. It is called lipitor. I was able to lower my level in about 30 days from above 300 to below 200.

Some nights stay up till dawn, as the moon sometimes does for the sun. Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a well, then lifted out into light.

... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.