I so much like real things - the realities that come naturally from the depths of us like - what shall I say? - the way trees grow, from some inner e….

Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand..

The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism..

Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is ….

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom..

What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government..

All men are brothers and each man is free..

The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other..

I am too sick to work and haven't money enough to last 2 months and pay income tax. I want to keep going but do not see quite how, and there is no al….

An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the center is belief in Authority..

Houses are the abiding joys; they are the most emotion-stirring of all things. An automobile is regarded with fond affection, a typewriter becomes th….

The longest lives are short; our work lasts longer..

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open..

A kiss without a mustache is like an egg without salt..

Writing fiction is an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it..

I can imagine nothing more wonderful than always wanting to keep a man. It's this NOT wanting to keep them, and yet not quite being able to disentang….

The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government..

no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone..

I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply..

Two deep human desires were at war ... the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the desire for death, and the opp….

Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his prop….