Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

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.

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.

I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.

I just was apologizing for maybe being a little goofy.

For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

Theatre is alive and it is now, and then it's gone.

Composing music is what makes me happy.

A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.

Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.