I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Do not open your mouth to tell me that your mind has convinced you of your right to force my mind. Force and mind are opposites. Morality ends where a gun begins.

If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still — nothing.

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.