It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.