Man was created to complete the horse.

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.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.

To be consumed with passion is to be gallant to discover

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.

My belief in the gospel of Jesus Christ and the testimony I have of the Savior and His atonement [is my personal shelter].

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.

To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem.

Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.