It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.

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.

People were crazy with pain and secrets.

My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?

Savant syndrome, characteristically, consists of left hemisphere dysfunction coupled with right hemisphere emergence, and what you see in the savant are basically right brain skills.

I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut.

Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body.

It's a great question about what is our mind. Undoubtedly a creation of our brain.

The Human heart is an idol factory.

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.

You can never take the violence back.

We are all human beings. As such, we are part of a big family: the human family. The pain of any human being will somehow affect the entire family.