Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you’d want to be broken, trampled, ordered, dominated, because that’s the impossible, in the inconceivable for you in your relations with people. That would be the one gift, the great exception you’d want to offer the man you loved. But it wouldn’t be easy for you.

She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage-the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterologic al traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry.

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.