A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.

Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.

When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia and bribe the police.

In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints.

If a person thinks he can be happy without making those around him happy, he's crazy.

The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others.