When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.

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.

God, nevertheless, required a little help from men, and what he mostly got was hindrance.

...nothing is permanent. Everything and everyone you know can change at any moment. That's how I see things now - except for you. You're the one constant in my life.

A person's life persuades better than his word.

Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.

I want to make my own life a masterpiece.

Small, short-sighted, blonde, barbed - she reminds me of a bright little hedgehog.

He gives my hand a tight squeeze, but that desperation, that urgency between us is gone. No insecurities. Max and Fang. Fang and Max. No longer a question. We just are.

Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?

Loving means getting rid of names.

Learn always but never appear to be learning.