Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.

There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.

There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.

Politically, of course, it's to the Right, but then the whole country is to the Right.

The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.

Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

To have an interest in both sexes is equally normal. Whether it's practiced or not is something else. Some do. Some don't.