Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.

Abortion is a moral right-which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter is to be considered. Who can conceivably have the right to dictate to her what disposition she is to make of the functions of her body?

It is not fools that I seek to address.

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

A society without intellectuals is like a body without a head

He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money