The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.

A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written even to entertain. It is written as a man is born - an organic whole, dictated only by its own laws and its own necessity - an end in itself, not a means to an end.

She stood at the window, her arms spread wide, holding on to each side of the frame, it was as if she held a piece of the city.