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

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

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

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

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

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