Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

You can't save everyone, though God knows you try.

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.

Pop is an easy way for evil business people to make a lot of money. But I find myself humming a Christina Aguilera song every once in a while.

In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school

Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.

I take no actions that I wouldn't publicly recount. If you can't speak your deeds, then don't do them.

With music that I write, I like to have in there something you can relate to, a way to share the experience.

I'm going to be here until I'm cured?" "Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed".

Beautiful,' Jason exclaimed. 'Piper, you... you're a knockout.