There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.

Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".

The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.

The average bloke . . . hates and fears all freedom, not only for others but for himself, and stamps it out wherever possible.