We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

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.

No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.

The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.

And all we feared inside the night / shows true in morning's biased light.

A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.

Moving on is not about forgetting the past

Nothing in life is fun for the whole family. There are no massage parlors with ice cream and free jewelry.

The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.

I keep all my poems in my journals and lock them away. They are the start of everything.

I've always been interested in past lives, because they're earmarks of what creates us.

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.