I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.