You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated

Don't rely on our knowledge of what's best for your future. We do know, but it can't be best until you know it.

To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.

He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

You don't have to see through the eyes of others, hold onto yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is–say it aloud, like the holiest of prayers, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these characters and observe these events in real life? Is this story an experience worth living through for its own sake? Is the pleasure of contemplating these characters an end itself?