Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

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.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?

Read and search for the answers you seek.

And you can't know it, because to know it is to be it, and to be it is to not be you.

I can smell blood, Elena, ” Dmitri drawled, walking back into the room. “Are you trying to flirt?

An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author's demise.

My mom knows pretty well how I see her.

As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.

My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.

Creativity is not and never has been sensible.

The arts can enrich all of us in this nation as individuals. The arts can enrich all of our communities and the country. And the arts can connect us to each other like nothing else can.

Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.