Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.

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.

Experience life, pick up a good book and appreciate the moment, for the moment, not the replay.

Give the people you love thebest of yourself, not the worst.

Friends are born, not made.

After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.

The abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart.

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.

Awkwardness gives me great comfort.

For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the story itself.