I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.

Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.

In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.