The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.

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.

Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.

Pain is like a healing emotional fever.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

I sometimes read books on my iPad.

Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.

A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.

You can then further enhance the process of writing by forming the clear intention that your Higher Self will influence your writing.

Even savage animals can agree among themselves.

Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so illuminated that I'm able to see where to go. I write between these illuminations.