My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.

America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.

Most American men are repressors.

I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to be sure it wasn't all-for nothing.