When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.

If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong to society and that he, as a member of society, has the right to dispose of them...that psychological confession reveals the enormity of the extent to which altruism erodes men's capacity to grasp the concept of rights or the value of an individual life.

Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story.

Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man's self-defense, and, as such, may only resort to force only against those who start the use of force.