One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers.

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.

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.

The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and over and into all times.

Grace works that way. It's a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It's a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.

Organisms are selected to deploy violence only in circumstances where the expected benefits outweigh the expected costs.

I'm just warning you, " Neeve said. "Watch out for the devil. When there's a god, there's always a legion of devils.

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.

Everyone needs help from everyone else.

Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.

I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping as we all should. I dunno. You don't live that long. It doesn't matter.

Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it.