Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.