Life imitates art -- but badly.

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.

What you choose to do in this life will surely affect you in the next... Just do good, even when it's very hard to do so. It's your life that's on the line.

It feels great to do what you love.

Who you spend your time with is who you are, or who you will soon become.

A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.

Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

I was the hallway clown in high school.

The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in advance that it can never be modified.

Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.

Believe, it is our best defense.

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.