The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.

A society without intellectuals is like a body without a head

Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don’t have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy.

The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.

To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.

The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorious success behind him and a cynical look of twice his age, said suddenly, 'I know what I'd like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news!'

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.