Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.

Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

Man was created to complete the horse.

There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.

The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and empire. From a race of hunters, artists, warriors, and tamers of horses, we degraded ourselves to what we are now: clerks, functionaries, laborers, entertainers, processors of information.

There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last