It has thick skin, and all the most important thinkers have become part of it.

I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one.

Solomon smiles with us

I love it with all of its villains and pretty liars and self-righteous pompers

I love it as it is, because it is a story, and it isn't stuck in one place.

Welcome to His poem. His play. His novel. Skip the bowls of fruit and statues. Let the page flick your thumbs. This is His spoken word.

I am ugly. I am black inside, rotting and putrid.

At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.

There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.

One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something art.

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization...

When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.

How dare you treat your soil like dirt!

Comedy keeps the heart sweet.

There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.

I'd like to rescue people in trouble, like Superman.