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.

Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity.

You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!

... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.

I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people see.

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.