There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

But I don't think of you. - Howard Roark

Love is the binding force of the universe. It is an ongoing flow that unites all of creation.

Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.

What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.

You can do something as simple as drinking two cups of water before a meal to fill your belly a bit so that you don't overeat, or change up your cheese from dairy to nondairy.

I always say that I can play sort of six variations on one girl, all of whom are a variation on me. Maybe I'll think of myself as an actor if, like, I do a corset drama.

Self-hatred is sometimes appropriate.

I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.

I don't do anything for the money.

We can only love a person who eats what we eat.