Late August still feels like summer here in the Ozarks, but it is the time of year the nighthawks are moving on to their South American wintering grounds.

I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.

I have stopped sleeping inside. A house is too small, too confining. I want the whole world, and the stars too.

Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.

In the name of forever, let's burn down our today and tomorrows.

Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

Suffice it to say, there are some very big ideas in Prometheus and, therefore, it covers a very vast expanse of time.

Both the Bush people and [Barack] Obama people had no problem working with the holdovers. They weren't out to get them.

Cinderella hoein' for the fellas, Mr. Roger was getting kind of jealous.

In fact, pro wrestling is strong.

I know what I would do if I were coach. I'd determine our strengths and weaknesses and utilize them. And it's pretty clear what our strength is.

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

There’s an Iago and a Romeo within all of us. There is that lover, and there is that sociopath.

Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?