There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

I can`t get excited about politics, but I love it as a game. Because what I love in politics - this is very selfish of me, but who cares - what I do love in politics is this ability it has to make you think in new ways.

Fascism is more of a natural state than democracy. To assume blithely that we can export democracy into any country we choose can serve paradoxically to encourage more fascism at home and abroad. Democracy is a state of grace that is attained only by those countries who have a host of individuals not only ready to enjoy freedom but to undergo the heavy labor of maintaining it.

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.

Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.