It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.

Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.

If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife.

Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.

The heavenly Father is a hope to the hopeless.

To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.

I would feel much better about this whole affair if you would slap me and get it over with. I know you want to.

To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.

Standing in line to vote! We can do anything!

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.

Did you just call me old? I really prefer the word 'experienced'.

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.