We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.

When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.

The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character.

We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms race that wiped the Russians out.

The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.