There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.

It is infinitely better to rely on the pursuit of economic interest by landowners or street companies than to depend on the dubious “altruism” of bureaucrats and government officials.

Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government.

No action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen.

Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.

When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.

there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!

I have always been fascinated with guns. I grew up in America so granted, it is part of our heritage and it is written into the laws of how this country is run.

People really want to see what I'm up to, and that's crazy. It's a really lovely feeling. It's kind of scary, but a good scary. It's a lovely position to be in.

A bird only flies. It does not turn to another bird and ask, am I doing this right?

There are no mistakes in life, and it's not about anybody being able to judge you.

To me, there's nothing funnier than funny people in peril, because it's just a great springboard for people to be at a heightened emotionality and things get funnier.

I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.