A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written even to entertain. It is written as a man is born - an organic whole, dictated only by its own laws and its own necessity - an end in itself, not a means to an end.

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.

So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . . When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him by force. It is only as retaliation that force may be used and only against the man who starts its use. No, I do not share his evil or sink to his concept of morality: I merely grant him his choice, destruction, the only destruction he had the right to choose: his own.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

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