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

I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity, for the fuel of my body, for my survival. I've given you, not my sacrifice or my pity, but my ego and my naked need. This is the only way I can want you to love me.

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.

A gun is not an argument.

He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind.