Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.

In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.

The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like a pianist who acquires a brilliant technique by playing finger-exercises, but never gives a concert.