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.

I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track.

Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

The Gores, I think, are a bit brighter than the Bushes, historically speaking.

The ideal to which John Adams subscribed-that we would be a nation of laws, not of men-was quickly subverted when the churches forced upon everyone, through supposedly neutral and just laws, their innumerable taboos on sex, alcohol, gambling. We are now indeed a nation of laws, mostly bad and certainly antihuman.

If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.