The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorious success behind him and a cynical look of twice his age, said suddenly, 'I know what I'd like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news!'

I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important.

Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And you, Kira, are my highest reverence.

...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason.

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.