Those who feel guilty are afraid; and those who are afraid somehow feel guilty. To the onlooker, too, the fearful seem guilty.

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

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

There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.

The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements.