That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

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.

Ashes have no fear to burn in hellIn your heart's paradise angels dwellRib cage fastens all sins of the wrongYour bones will sing you mortality’s song

It is not, in the long run, the battles and sieges that signify, but the permanent effect on the human race of the changes they help to bring about.

The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be.

The flowing river nonchalantly reminds us of life: flowing relentlessly

When I finished graduate school, the first George Bush was president, and I really wanted to get out of the country. We'd just gone through the first Gulf War.

I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.

There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated.

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.

The vast sky is not hindered by the floating clouds.

The choices of one shape the futures of all.