As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.
Rose Wilder Lane
Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.
Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.
I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.
The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.
The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere.
