The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.

To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off.

As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.

We are all addicts in various stages of degradation where I live on the Upper West Side, some to heroin, some to small dogs, and some to the New York Times. The heroin is cut, the dogs are paranoid, and the Times cheats by skimping on the West Coast ball scores. No matter, each of us goes upon the street solely in pursuit of his own particular curse.