Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's individual value-judgments. — Ayn Rand

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

Art is man's metaphysical mirror; what a rational man seeks to see in that mirror is a salute; what an irrational man seeks to see is a justification – even if only a justification of his depravity, as a last convulsion of his betrayed self-esteem.