What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

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.

Maybe I live in the gates that lead to outbound international flights. Maybe that is home.And do I feel more comfortable at the departures or at the arrivals?

Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.

It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.

It was then that I realized that while playing the well-meaning tolerant individual (in short: liberal) garnered you fans and grades, it didn't matter. In my heart and head, I was a fraud.

An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.

Some trials look as much like the trial of an ordinary criminal case as a Hitchcock film looks like a home movie.