Writing does for me what giving milk does for a cow.

Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives of mud turtles, frequently find them arrayed against us.

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.

Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood.

The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.

I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty.

Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.