There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.

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.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

The great secret to success is that there are no secrets of success. There are only timeless principles that have proven effective throughout the centuries.

So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

Whenever I drive under a yellow light, I always kiss my finger and tap it on the roof of the car. And I do that when I get onto a plane as well!

Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.

To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.

Of all the many ways of organising banking, the worst is the one we have today.

The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.

How use doth breed a habit in a man.