Occupation: Novelist Birth: February 2, 1905 Death: March 6, 1982
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see..
We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt..
Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes, for our motto of 'Business as usual.' Well-busin….
I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they certainly project, no….
I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning on….
America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything….
It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism..
If you tell an amateur that his story is not good, he always declares indignantly: 'Oh, but it really happened just like this!' The writer who doesn'….
Everything has strings leading to everything else. We're all so tied together. We're all in a net, the net is waiting, and we're pushed into it by on….
He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to her. He knew that his ….
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it..
What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or pe….
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels ….
Allies never trust each other, but that doesn't spoil their effectiveness..
I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries..
There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpos….
Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from ….
Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims..
Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can b….
Abortion is a moral right-which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter is to….
But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, ….