Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother love or cherry pie.

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

There are no vacant lots in nature.

Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.

Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.

Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.