I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

I am slowly coming to the conclusion that it’s more important to learn to work with what you’ve got, under the circumstances you’ve been given, than wishing for different ones.

Death is the destroyer and giver of sense.

Ryan-chasers have a life wish. They live life to the fullest because they are willing to look foolish.

I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.

If you do tomorrow what you did today , you will get tomorrow what you got today

I am a Bay Area guy, no question.

Westward the star of empire takes its way.

I walked exclusively on the sidewalks. I was a city girl. I've never been countrified.

Everything has changed and nothing is changed.

God will judge my heart, Man will judge my actions.