How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

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.

Just because you have a past with someone, doesn't mean you should have a future with them.

…she simply accepted it for what it was — a normal, average, everyday kind of miracle.

Giving saves lives. Especially the giver’s.

If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

I used a lot of sports psychologists when I was younger... sometimes it helped, sometimes it didn't.

God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, "Can I be excused the Crucifixion?" No!

The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.

The hunger of passions is the greatest disease.

I had what can only be described as the worst voice in the history of music.

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.