In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.

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.

Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.

Dating a tennis player is risky - love means nothing to us.

People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.

If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.

He that hopes not for good, feares not evill.

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

While I was at Microsoft, the annual revenues grew larger than the GDP of the Republic of Ghana.

I spend a lot of time with my characters.

How shall Integrity face Oppression?