To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.

I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship only what I believe to be true.” May 19, 1962

I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding.

The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.