Patience is the ability to enjoy the calm of boredom.

Society is a voluntary scheme of mutual benefit. The state is a compulsory scheme of mutual exploitation.

Governments represent their citizens in the same way as parasites represent their hosts.

It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it "social justice".

To claim that one can be happy without being free is to prove that one has no idea what happiness means.

A slave believes that the law should define the scope of liberty. A free person believes that liberty should define the scope of the law.

The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods.

Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty.

An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size.

It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity.

Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers.

Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.

You judge people in the context of their time, not in the context of ours.

If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which the equality of conditions is increased.

The motivation comes from the embarrassment of having lost and the way it sits with you.

Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.

When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity...I can be sure that I am right.

I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes.

I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.

Short on money, long on hope

I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing.