Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.

Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.

Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.

The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.

Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me.

Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.