Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Not even need and love can defeat fate.

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

The creative adult is the child who has survived.