I am a man who does not exist for others.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of its followers but the confusion of its enemies. To fight it, we must understand it.

I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.

We are now moving towards complete collectivism or socialism, a system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody.

I agree that [marriage] should be treated like a business deal. But every business deal has to have its own terms and its own kind of currency.

You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well.