Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

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.

This thing about you that you think is your flaw - it's the reason I'm falling in love with you.

If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.

I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

Where the states are dead set on suppressing political opposition, it's very hard to overcome that.

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?

I think it's time to admit that our writing is guided by the technology we use as much as it is by our own subjectivity.

I get some female attention from fans, but mostly it's people asking for advice about a situation with their ex or their boyfriend, so it's not all love letters and fan mail!

I don't look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren't there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary.

Forcing me to figure out how to provide for myself was probably one of the best things my parents ever did for me.

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.