The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.
No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.
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.
It's hard to program a computer to make jokes. The brain needs to do something here; the brain needs to come up with something bizarre to make something funny.
I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
I'm just a very tough person when I go on the court, and I really don't want to lose.
My job, as I see it, is to give you a window into another world and another story, and then to be as graceful as I can so that you don't feel my work or the editor's work or the lens or the light or anything.