The worst that can be said about pornography is that it leads not to anti-social acts but to the reading of more pornography

Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.

The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer.

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. ... I have 10 or so, and thats a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.

These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.

We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents the people. The courts do not practice justice any more. The armies never stop playing at being the policemen of the world and of oil.

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.