Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.

American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.

Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home.

Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.

The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.

Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric.