“Modern man, especially modern urban intellectual man, without a sense of history or blood soil - the words Hitler's distortion made anathema - understood poorly the seemingly inexorable cycles of human conduct. Men such as Churchill, nonintellectual but brilliant, were not cleverer than the best minds of the West. But they tended to see what was, and not what should be.”
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“But reality, of course, was different than fantasies. More treacherous, and more exhilarating.”
“Reality is that which saves us from the ‘illusion’ that we were convinced was our salvation.”
“Maybe in another life you can have the life you want... But for now you'll have to settle for this”
“Flesh and blood had its own relationship to reality: necessary, but not sufficient.”