What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".

Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest.

If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an obsession, a mania or all of these expressed in one word - individualism. I was born with that obsession, and I've never seen and do not know now a cause more worthy, more misunderstood, more seemingly hopeless and tragically needed.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.