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

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.

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

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

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

Have you noticed that everything in Nature, gives back to Nature?

What's the difference between hot and cold cereal? Why can't all cereals get along?

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.

Christ demands first place. There's no room on the throne of your heart for two gods.

I am not too technical in my acting, and I feel when I get too technical it becomes unbelievable.

The principles that make someone a master in the chief executive role deal with whether or not they can thrive in an environment of ongoing duress, and teach others how to do so.

I've met a lot of famous people that I just thought were so unbelievable. For me, meeting Julie Andrews was probably the highlight of my life.

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

The role of the designer is basically that of a good host, anticipating the needs of the guest.

We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.