By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

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.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

In selecting any goal you should focus on the reason – without a compelling reason your resolve will weaken.

Alligators have beautiful undulating skin, which feels dense, spongy, solid, like the best eraser.

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.

And the roads called us to take the walk.

You are a great deal of trouble, Jace herondale. “So I’ve been told” jace said

As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory.

People call me all sorts of things. I don't even care what they call me.

I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.

I've never met anybody in this world like me.