I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.

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.

Jesus our Teacher and Guide loves truth and hates iniquity

A motivated manpower is the most important thing.

As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing.

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.

What matters most is how you live your life, not what you have to show for it.

I'm like a shark. I've got to be constantly moving.

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

I had to fight for wingdings. Batman needs to curse sometimes!

Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.