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.

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

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

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.

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.

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.