Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the "true man," and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man.

We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression.

Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion.

My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

If it is right for me, it is right. It is possible that it is wrong for others: let them take care of themselves!

A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.

Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.

He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

I have to return some videotapes

Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.

People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.

If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder.

I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing.

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.

Losing a basketball game hurts but when you see what you've been through, you look on it and say well if this is the worst thing that can happen to me, then I'm okay.