Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuati on.

I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity, for the fuel of my body, for my survival. I've given you, not my sacrifice or my pity, but my ego and my naked need. This is the only way I can want you to love me.

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.

Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the personal, selfish pleasure which one man derives from the virtues of another man’s character.

We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we?

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.