The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it.

It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.

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

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the time he wins them, they are no longer little things: they are miracles.

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.