Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the ease of complete relaxation.

I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.

You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.

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