This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel.

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.

Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it.

She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.

She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the mind.

"You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead"

I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.