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

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

The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

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

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.