If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unnecessary.

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Freedom of association includes the freedom not to associate.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.

There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as they do receive.

Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.