Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

Farming is a profession of hope

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

A win is a win, regardless of how you look at it.

You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.

I adapt to directors, I don't like making directors adapt to me. If I'm with Clint Eastwood then I'll do two takes, if I'm with Fincher I'll do 50 - though the thought of that sounds horrible.

Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.

Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare.

Two things make the women unforgettable, their tears and their perfume

My socks DO match. They're the same thickness.