Politically, of course, it's to the Right, but then the whole country is to the Right.

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.

The people are not stupid, but they are totally misinformed.

I would be literally patrician in the sense that the senators in ancient Rome were called conscript fathers, paters, from which comes the word patrician. So if you come from a senatorial family, you are literally patrician in that sense, but that doesn't mean that you couldn't be Billy Carter, you know, of recent memory.

Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back in the 1890s. "We have a single system," he wrote, and "in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses."

I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging.

If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.