There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men.

You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found honour in challenging; it was ineptitude - a grey spread of cotton that seemed soft and shapeless, that could offer no resistance to anything or anybody, yet managed to be a barrier in her way. She stood, disarmed, before the riddle of what made this possible, she could find no answer.

The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through bureaucratic procedures.The only thing that is keeping you out of jail is government goodwill.

Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce what I think a character like so-and-so would say.' You have to reproduce it in the way your literary premises dictate.

A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.