Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.

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.

It was the inverse of an island in the sea.

Or winters when the sloughs were frozen over and dead and i could walk across the ice and snow between the dead cattails and see nothing but grey skies and dead things and cold

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

I grew up very conservatively and traditionally. I wanted to save myself for marriage.

I feel nowadays that both women and men are embracing their individuality rather than being defined by gender roles.

Power is not anything that's given away. Power is something you have to compete for.

Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.

I respect Millar, sir: he has raised the price of literature.

If you know who you are, it takes all the power away from that negativity.. I promise.