Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.

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.

Shouldering the blame for failure and conferring credit where it is due comes rarely to most.

Aging gracefully - A concept that is rejected in 40s, but gracefully accepted in 50s...

The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.

I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

They were chanting my name, but I don't know why. My name is on the back of my uniform. So, it's nice to know they can read.

It don't take long to kill things. Not like it does to grow.

Honey, ... When a wolf watches a lamb, he's not thinking about the lamb's mommy.

Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.

Nymphets do not occur in polar regions.