Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

I'm your other half. (...) I'll carry your heartbeat in mine.

If a man took a lover it would be accounted commonplace. Why shouldn't you? Your virtue lies in your mind, not in what lies between your legs.

And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.

Inside, I was like: "Ha, suck my spiky rubber strap-on, vampyre hunter!

I long to be known as an extravagant worshiper...that God would discover the song in my heart to be elaborate, overgenerous, and wasteful in my pursuit of Him.

The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

The law which their prophet Mohamed has given to muslims is that any harm done to any one who does not accept their law and any appropriation of his goods, is no sin at all.

One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library.

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.