Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.

Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.

First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.

I'm a much worse guest than I am a host, and I'm not an awfully good host either. I really like being alone.

Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength.

Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.