I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

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.

Originality must compound with inheritance.

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.

more you drink more you want

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

Shame is the shadow of love.

When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime!

I can't selfishly take journeys anymore because I have to take a little boy along with me.

This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.

I'll be in Hell before you start breakfast!