As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'

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.

I know he's a good person. And he said he was sorry. And I love him. And when you love a person, you have to forgive him sometimes.

I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.

Sometimes...the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing that you were never meant to have them.

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

Radio is less important than it used to be. Kids are not just hip-hop kids, just punk kids, just pop kids, just whatever kids. Everyone is mixing and matching on their playlists.

I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.

I'm a very slow reader, and books of interviews are an absolute favorite of mine.

I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders.

Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.