Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental… — Ayn Rand

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

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

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.