How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?

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.

Success is not what you have done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you were supposed to do.

How do you imagine Hell, sir Blacksad ? For me, it's a place without music... of complete silence.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on." Walter Lippmann.

We have inexhaustible resources to achieve the goal.

If Hitler hadn't turned against their beloved Stalin, liberals would have stuck by him, too.

I think fine dining is dying out everywhere... but I think there will be - and there has to always be - room for at least a small number of really fine, old-school fine-dining restaurants.

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.

Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.

Rosa Luxemburg maintained that the capitalist system can keep up its rate of investment (and therefore its profits) only so long as it is expanding geographically.

We have within us the power to uplift ourselves. This power is our own awareness.