The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's friend, saw them on top of a pile in a junk yard, dismantling the carcass of an automobile. He stopped, shook his head and said to Francisco, 'A young man of your position ought to spend his time in libraries, absorbing the culture of the world.' 'What do you think I'm doing?' asked Francisco.

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the word "why?

If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.

I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.