"We publish only to satisfy our craving for fame [...] To publish anything is folly and evidence of a certain defect of character. To publish the intellect is the most heinous of all crimes, and on a number of occasions I have not recoiled from committing this most heinous of crimes. It wasn't even done out of a crude urge to communicate my ideas to anybody. That has never attracted me. It was a craving for fame pure and simple [...] If I am nauseated by all the thousands and hundreds of thousands of publications by other people, I should be unutterably nauseated by my own. But we can't escape vanity and the craving for fame. If necessary, we are prepared to yield to it with our heads held high, even though we know that we are acting in an unpardonable and perverse manner."