As Kierkegaard was the first to suggest, we can never know where our prayers are likely to go nor from whom the answers will come. When we think we are nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.

People who live under fascism are not only miserable but they're full of shame. You just don't go in and inject democracy into them. They're half crazy with their own.

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

It all comes down to who does the dishes.