Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.

If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.

Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.