Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.

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.

For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?

Of Course you can attract someone by Beautiful body, but if you don't have beautiful soul than they will be with you only until they enjoy your body in Bed

If you love someone, be their everything.

Because I had no awareness of who I was or what I needed, I found myself settling for a mediocre relationship rather than holding out for what was best.

The evening sky was awash with peach, apricot, cream: tender little ice-cream clouds in a wide orange sky.

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step.

Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.

It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs.

If you can't do it with feeling - don't.