What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.

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 corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

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.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.