There's no such thing as a free lunch.

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.

There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

His shout was a syllable so ancient and powerful that Saffiyah's mind instantly censored it.

She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.

Second rule of the bush. Never get too close to anything that has offspring.What's the first rule?Food runs. If you don't want to be food, don't run.

Always allocate enough time to pursue the things that are of value to you.

We are only flesh and blood. We are only chemicals mixing and circuits firing, sometimes in disarray. We are, every last one of us, plagued by useless want.

A man will part with anything so long as he's drunk, and you're drunk with him.

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

You can read me like a book. If I'm not having a good time, which is very rare, then you'll know.

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.