The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve--Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man's virtues, and all his virtues pertain to the relation of existence and consciousness: rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, pride.

A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written even to entertain. It is written as a man is born - an organic whole, dictated only by its own laws and its own necessity - an end in itself, not a means to an end.

Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary.

Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.