For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.

Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.

Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.

I refuse to be. In the madhouse of the inhuman I refuse to live. With the wolves of the market place I refuse to howl.

I am a shadow’s shade, a lunatic, perhaps, Of two dark moons.

My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence.

I am a moonbeam, free to go whenever I choose.

Think about me lightly, think of me, and forget.

Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.

No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

True freedom consists not in the freedom to sin, but the freedom not to sin.

RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.

It's so hard to find the time. I only have one kid and it's hard with one kid. I can't imagine people who have more than that.

The ultimate joke was the idea that capitalism would eat its own feces in order to make money, that would make fun of itself if capitalism thought there was a buck in it.

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

Professor von Mises has a splendid analytical mind and an admirable passion for liberty; but as a student of human nature he is worse than null and as a debater he is of Hyde Park standard.

My faith is tested daily.

You go on reacting to the image not to the person, and hence there is no relationship. When there is no image, then there is relationship.

Wherever there is desire and ambition, you are in bondage.