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

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 power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

If only God would give me a clear sign like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

In my hometown memories are fresh.

It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed.

You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.

Its a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

Look with all your eyes, look.

To be a working actor in England is a life. I think it's harder in this country. Either you are a superstar or a starving actor.

Be drunk with LOVE, for Love is all that exists.

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.