A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

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.

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

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

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

Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment in which each was tested and to some degree found wanting. [...] The consequences of the journey change the voyager so much more than the embarking or the arrival.

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