Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

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.

Her heart did a slow roll in her chest. "I'm yours, " she whispered. "For the duration." "Yes, but more than that, I'm yours, " he said, quiet steel.

It is a shame that the very people who used education to clamber out of the disadvantages they had grown up in, have drawn up the ladder after them.

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of unusual shape is henceforth hailed as an architect.

It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!

I can tell you, having been in court today in New York, that the requests for the video outtakes have been dropped.

Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.

Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself.

I'm not God, but I am something similar.

A win's a win, unless it is not a win, and then it's not a win.