Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.

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

I have often said that loneliness is the predominant attitude in our culture. A person can be lonely in the midst of a party

Connections are made slowly sometimes they grow underground.

My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.

I had to shoot shotguns for The Blues Brothers. But I don't like that stuff. Too butch for me.

If I can't hit at a high level, I won't play, and I know there comes a point where my body won't be able to do that.

If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.

My motto is that I enjoy life. I think there's a kind of simplicity to that way of thinking.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

We need a smaller and elite military, as [Donald]Rumsfeld said - and also a smaller and elite foreign policy.

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.