“He did not want to go to his grave knowing he had risked nothing for the woman he wanted. He wasn’t an ass, though. Or if he was, he did not wish to give her incontrovertible evidence of the fact. What to say to her, then, when he knew he was likely to speak too gruffly?”

“You want me to be unselfish? A vampire is selfish. We kill so that we can survive, that is the ultimate selfishness.”

“But the irony in unbearable things is that they actually are bearable. They force you to endure what you cannot comprehend enduring. They demand that you sit in unimaginable pain.”

“Life was so simple when apples and blackberries were fruit, a tweet was the sound of nature, and facebooks were photo albums”

“In a truly free society, individuals are granted responsibility for themselves. Freedom necessitates that we learn how to provide for ourselves, contributing value in whatever form, to generate personal income. We then decide how we wish to spend or save earned income; freedom is the reward for fulfilling personal responsibilities.”

“In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.”

“Your principles are your true north because they instruct how you will handle every situation, especially when there is no easy choice.”

“To all you defenders of democracy, I'd like one answer: all of us acknowledge that there are hordes of stupid people out there. Why do you want to give them political power?”