The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

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

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up.

Anarchy works. Italy has proved it for a thousand years.