Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.

If you're a critic of the rulers of the United States, you are either demonized, or you are trivialized by the press, and they do a very good job of making you into a non-person or a ridiculous person.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

Writing of history is our only heuristic principle. The Germans have a word for it, einfühlen. It is the ability to experience the past in the present and to recreate it. In my books, I have tried to recreate it in the most natural way possible: History must be integrated into the story without the weight of premonition.

Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all.

People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.