Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

...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.

The essence of spirit ... was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.