Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

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.

People who achieve marvelously in critical challenges are commended than people who achieve same things on the silver platter.

Okay, I’ll just jump right out and say it. I have anxiety issues.

You are always going to love him, she said " You're stuck with that.

The name does not deserve the poem, but the poem deserves the name.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

I have yet to meet a person who has not felt betrayed.

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore?

The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.

I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a character or an idea.