Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.

I am only concerned with politics so I may see the day when I don't have to be concerned with politics.

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.

I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.