The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

Keep your libraries, your penal institutions, your insaneasylums... give me beer.You think man needs rule, he needs beer. The world does not need morals, it needs beer... The souls of men have been fed with indigestibles, but the soul could make use of beer.

A world without hope, but no despair

The moment one is on the side of life; peace and security drop out of consciousness. The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.

Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.

Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action

The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.