Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.

Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.

Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*.

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.

Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.

All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary line from protozoan to Spinoza any less certain? That also may be true. We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living things on earth are kindred.