Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me.

Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.

The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.

I am opposed to all forms of control. I am for an absolute, laissez-faire, free, unregulated economy.

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.