When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.

The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.

Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away? And if it is not moral for you to keep a value, why is it moral for others to accept it? If you are selfless and virtuous when you give it, are they not selfish and vicious when they take it?

If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it?

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.