Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.

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.

Should I get lost, just point me in the direction of a poem.

the internet are the ultimate enemy of unconditional commitment

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

The most efficient labor-saving device is still money.

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

[Chelsea] Manning leaked more than 700,000 classified files and videos to WikiLeaks about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S. foreign policy.

In the end, my love for surfing helped me overcome my fear of sharks.

Time waits for no ovary.

When you go into the studio or get up on the stage with people who have more experience or knowledge, you learn.

Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.