High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

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.

I love working with my hands. My writing is rough, my paper bruised with ink stains.

How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?

The tender Mercy of God has given us one another.

Creativity is basically subversive. . . .

Endings are beginnings, and beginnings are ours to turn into something good.

Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it.

I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants.

There's certain things that you can do on cable that you can't do here on network TV, so then you have to think outside the box a little bit.

You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your money to help people that doesn't.

I'd rather be in Las Vegas 104 degrees than New York 90 degrees, you know why? Legalized prostitution. In any weather that takes the edge off.