Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.

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.

After or before any happiness, someone must cry.

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience.

What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children?

One of the things I've been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface.

In New York and LA, there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something.

My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent.