No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

It takes two men to make one brother.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common.

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

New York is the great stone desert.

Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad.

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.

Silence is a giver

A winner’s mentality always works towards victory

The true principle of government is this - make the system compleat in its structure; give a perfect proportion and balance to its parts; and the powers you give it will never affect your security.

There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs.

A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative

He trailed off as he saw the books. Piles and stacks of them beside the sofa, another stack on the coffee table, a sea of them on her dining table. Jesus Christ, Dane, you need treatment.

The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies.

First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.