Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.

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.

Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

Some days I wonder how I'll get through a whole lifetime of thinking. A life that's just words, words, words, shuffling around in my head. Was I born that way?

Wait awhile, and everything will change."~'Griblich

Hell didn't make me a monster. It just confirmed all my worst fears about myself.

The days were sunny, the nights were star-studded. Indeed married life was strawberries for breakfast and loving all the time.

I enjoy raining on parades and throwing stones in glass homes.

I just make music based on what I believe.

Love and time, those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.

What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.

With Southern actors you always think you're from the same place. Even if one is from Texas, one is from Georgia, you're like, "oh, you're just down the street, man."