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

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".

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.

Patience is the ability to enjoy the calm of boredom.

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.

she'd played mother and wives. Women in narratives were always defined by their relations.

The more love you put off to the world in all aspects, the more it will return to you.

Trails need to be reconstructed. Please avoid building trails that go uphill.

As long as we're together, does it matter where we go?

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you've met along the way.

In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!

There are two types of sufferers

The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.