It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.

My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.

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

They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his 'minimum sustenance' his food, his clothes, his shelter with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright. To receive it from whom.

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.