There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

A quiet woman is a firearm with a silencer.

Girls are always at their best smiling.

I will be very sad and worried if the imperialist government was calling me a great democratic man.

People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now.

America is a hot chick with a bad personality. Take her seriously and you'll end up hating yourself.

I'll get into conversations with other people, and all of a sudden they will say something that sparks that... either the titles to me, or just the conversation itself will spark an idea for a song.

Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.

Adolescents are in just as much trouble in Native America as they are in the white community.

I'm such a goofball - I need someone who can make fun of me.

The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the world.