you are never called upon to prove a negative. that's a law of logic.

Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes, for our motto of 'Business as usual.' Well-business as usual, Mr. Ward!

An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions

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

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.

As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.

It is not fools that I seek to address.