The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

You shouldn't want to be like everyone else. Then you wouldn't be like you.

Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.

My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'

I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

I (naively) thought university training would make you better in following what happens in the world.

Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature.

[Donald Trump] says if he wins, he'll accept the outcome. If he lose, he will not accept the outcome. That is playing by two set of rules that is not very fair.

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me With just a pocketful of soap.

What was your life anyway but the tiny black spot of what you've done against the infinite white of possibility?

I'd best head to the library. Research beckons.