When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.

For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

What can't be cured must be endured.

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.

Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.