Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story.

If you get caught at some crucial point and somebody tells you that your doctrine doesn't make sense - you're ready for him. You tell him there's something above sense. That here he must not try to think, he must feel. He must believe. Suspend reason and you can play it deuces wild.

It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence—by his own choice.

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.

One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.