Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind..

That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, an….

There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they ….

One thing I hate about the New Deal is that it is killing what, to me, is the American pioneering spirit. I simply do not know what to tell my own bo….

I am now a fundamentalist American; give me time and I will tell you why individualism, laissez-faire and the slightly restrained anarchy of capitali….

Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, th….

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

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

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….

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..

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

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

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

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….

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 longest lives are short; our work lasts longer..

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

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….

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