I can't stand a sentence until it sounds right.

If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.

With their four-dimensional minds, and in their interdisciplinary ultra verbal way, geologists can wiggle out of almost anything.

Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them.

In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.

The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.

Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research.

Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life

Almost all Americans would recognize Anchorage, because Anchorage is that part of any city where the city has burst its seams and extruded Colonel Sanders.

I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.

Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness

There's always a free lunch with Cosmic Ordering.

You've got to try and not let it keep you down. Sure, let it hurt but don't let it harm you.

To know one's self is wisdom but to know one's neighbor is genius.

I'm always sad to leave paradise, but I leave behind the hopes of coming again soon.

Often, without being at all aware of it, men judge themselves, not by God's rule, but by their own.

My answer is bring them on.

Press agent - a man who hitches his braggin' to a star.

If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.

Anybody doing something brings something to it. It's not for me to say if it's "growth". Just by the nature of everyone has a different take on the material. Some people would.

The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.