Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique.

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.

She was a beautiful girl, but the lack of any spark dampened her prettiness.

At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.

Give your trust sparingly and only to those who have earned it.

...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.

Gold adulterates one thing only,--the human heart.

My father was a bullfighter.

I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

Nothing is strong that may not be endangered even by the weak.

There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.

My love's more richer than my tongue.