In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.

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.

The soul knows its sorrow.

I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

You hang out with trash and you start to smell like garbage.

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina

Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.

Good and quickly seldom meet.

Look back to learn how to look forward.

I'm glad I was never in a band.

If there were a god, there would be no need for religion. If there were not a god, there would be no need for religion.