Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.

The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.

The elk are the most abundant large herbivores in the Yellowstone ecosystem. There are thousands and thousands of them. They migrate in and out. And those migration routes need to stay open.

Nor are we the culmination of evolution, except in the sense that there has never been another species so bizarrely ingenious that it could create both iambic pentameter and plutonium.

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.

Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.

Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.

I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could use me as a nonfiction writer.

If you are lying in a tent in the Congo jungle, you don't want to be reading about rainforest biology. You want to be in a distant world.

Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.

I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.

Own your own dreamsCornelius Crapp to Gerald Crapp

We can overcome the uncertainties in life with courage and hope.

I like to exercise in the morning before work. It puts me in a good mood, which makes my coworkers happy, and jump-starts my brain, which makes me happy.

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.

The greatest thing that will please God is that you maintain an attitude of unshakable joy.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.

When you take a position, you have to accept responsibilities.