As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents.

If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities.

It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smooth-running Soviet planned economy with the breakdown in America, he was secretly exploiting the frantic necessities of the Soviet leaders to form the basis of one of America's most splendid public collections

Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts.

Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a very critical eye.

I like that lady - Sarah Palin. She's great. I like the cut of her jib.

Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.