Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.

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.

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

Dating is poetry. Marriage is a novel. There are times, maybe years, that are all exposition.

If I don’t believe in your god, it means he was incapable to manipulate me.

..he was 'nuts about her', as the parlance of the day had it, as if it were generally recognised that love and madness are adjoining rooms with extremely porous walls.

They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign.

The dream and the film are the juxtaposition of images in order to answer a question.

I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.

I write, but I also act.

Arguments do not erase prejudice any more than arguments erase scars, whether psychological or physical.

Since the beginning of time mankind has used music and dance to commune with the Spirit of Nature and the Spirit of the Universe…