Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and h….

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own..

What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. B….

The early worm deserves the bird..

If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long).

Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any othe….

All men are created unequal..

If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together..

The killer looked up as the bullet hit him. He looked as if he were puzzled by some strange occurence, being too freshly dead to be aware of it..

The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness..

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence..

Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me..

The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys..

Sense is never common..

Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfy….

Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few..

Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted..

The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract s….

Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning….

When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why..

The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. ….