By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family and function in the real world without doing violence to the hopes his mother held out for him. But those who cannot live within this pattern are the freaks and poets, and they travel a different road to peace.

There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

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

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

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.