Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.

Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers to art of any kind.

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

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place

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.

Realism has always been called cynicism.

Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy