The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.

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.

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

In any society, concentrations of power should be avoided at all cost.

Well God is certainly getting an earful tonight.

There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

If God's got a favorite songwriter, I think it's John Prine.

The best time to plan an experiment is after you've done it.

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.