Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?

A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.

For of what account are Truth and Love when Life itself has ceased to seem desirable?

The discerning one walketh amongst men as amongst animals.

I could be the lone Eskimo, friend of whales and seals."The Panopticon

A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.

What's important is to remain human.

The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.

Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.