Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

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.

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

She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

Man holds these rights [life, liberty and property], not from the Collective nor for the Collective, but against the Collective - as a barrier which the Collective cannot cross... these rights are man's protection against all other men.