Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.

...never have I subscribed to the doctrine of willful rejection of the world or its visual image. To the non-objectivist this act of impiety may be shockingly impure, but God, I have no desire to be either hollow or sterile.

Somerset Maugham ... wrote somewhere that "Nobody is any better than he ought to be."... I carried it along with me as a working philosophy, but I suppose that finally I would have to take exception to the thought ... or else the universe is just an elaborate clock.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again; it has perhaps not been here so intensely in thirty years, not since the Nazis were prospering, but it is coming back.

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.