The people of this country are too tolerant. There's no other country in the world where they'd allow it... After all we built up this country and then we allow a lot of foreigners, the scum of Europe, the offscourings of Polish ghettos to come and run it for us.

Letters are largely written to get things out of your system.

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.

It's easy to forget how central the French people are in everything we mean when we say Europe.

But what's the good of freedom? What can you do with it? What one wants is to live well and have a beautiful house and be respected by people.

In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters of theatre, writing, and painting. While the American Mercury and the new Ford continue to spread a thin varnish of Ritz over the whole United States there is a certain virtue in being unfashionable.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.