Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

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.

Life is obsession and so is reading :D

You do not need ‪God‬ to tell you what is right. You have a heart - follow that.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

Get comfortable with the idea that you won’t know what’s good until it’s already happened.

No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.

We can fly, you know. We just don't know how to think the right thoughts and levitate ourselves off the ground.

I seriously hope all the things i talk about are erroneous and false

Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.