In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone.

All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes down ultimately to the grant of an undefined undefinable, non-objective, arbitrary power to some government officials. The worst aspect of it is not that such a power can be used dishonestly, but that it cannot be used honestly. The wisest man in the world, with the purest integrity, cannot find a criterion for the just, equitable, rational application of an unjust, inequitable, irrational principle.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.

The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.

He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.

I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his sense of life are not merely mistaken, but evil, and yet, from a purely literary viewpoint, on his own terms, I have to evaluate him as a good writer.

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.