Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.

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 conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Only the goodness of heart and an intellect to match can produce such a perfect woman in nature.

There is but one blasphemy and that is injustice.

People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.

I only went to the third grade because my father only went to the fourth and I didn't want to pass him.

Analogue dollars for digital pennies.

I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.

I've lived many places on the planet, and I still have friends in many places.

Popular congresses are the only means to achieve popular democracy. Any system of government other than popular congresses is undemocratic.

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.