Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.

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.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Foreshadowing: Was my challenging Allah to unleash the full weight of his fury upon us, with dark clouds looming in the distance.

The early morning has gold in its mouth.

To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.

I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.

The instructor, Ms. Pease, also taught in the church's religious school, and she had a Sunday school manner at once saccharine and condemnatory.

Women had no clerical role anywhere in the Western world, period.

There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

Happiness wishes everybody happy.

Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain'd my freedom.