I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially splendid because it's not at all routine or automatic. Fascism goes back to our infancy and childhood, where we were always told how to live. We were told, Yes, you may do this; no, you may not do that. So the secret of fascism is that it has this appeal to people whose later lives are not satisfactory.

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.

Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.

Alimony is the curse of the writing class.

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.