Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.

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.

Don't allow someone else's thoughts become the illustrations of YOUR story

I'm not out of touch with reality

How strange that as I'm dying, you're calmly alive.

It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.

Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability.

If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.

We dont want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism.

People turn their eyes and ears to him (the sage), and the sage cares for them like his own children.

It was actually, 'Where ever there is television, there is poor old shagged out Tom Baker running across the rocks and punting down the river.'