An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt t... - Ayn Rand

"When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is."

"Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration."

"Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man."

"Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want."

"A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist."