The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.

But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality, to state it in gesture and form. For the man who understands this, a house he owns is a statement of his life.

We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.

Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it.

When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness - and one's mind becomes an organ one cannot trust any longer. It becomes what the mystics claim it to be: a tool of distortion.