Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

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

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

The little girl skipped by under the wrinkled oak leaves and held fast to a replica of herself.

The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.

I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.

Stan Ulam was lazy, ... He talked too much ... He was self-centered ... . He had an overpowering personality.

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.

Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'

No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.

Some things are so sad that they have no name. I have tried to name them and I can't.