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.

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.

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.

Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?

People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.

Sacred soul with sparkle of divinity finds undefeatable strength.

Love is you. Love is calling you. Life is awaiting you. Go forth and live fully. Be whomever you are. Define you.

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century song as being a bunch of forms to adapt and reconfigure.

It's Hard to Stay Mad When There's So Much Beauty in the World

The odd thing is, that I wrote The Great Spring while I had cancer and it's not about cancer. It was after I was done with cancer that I wrote a book about it.

Home, as far as I'm concerned, is the place you have to leave. And then, if you're like me, spend the rest of your life mourning.

Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.