Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.

It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.

Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.