Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing but literature and can and want to be nothing else, my job will never take possession of me, it may, however, shatter me completely, and this is by no means a remote possibility.

Guilt is never to be doubted.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you must hold your tongue.