I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to know the meaning of all things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a sacrifice on their alters.

A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.

I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning oneself for an impossible vision? A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.