An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good for it or evil... Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice.

There are two side to every issue.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

This god, this one word: I.

Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.

Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.