Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.

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.

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels

You can never make someone like something they don't like, but you can always help them to better understand it.

A baby is a symbol of peace, a plot of dreams, a light of hope, and a bundle of joy.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

I'd love to interview Mick Jagger, but that might be scary.

We're hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?

I am on the road all the time. Whether I'm in Paris or in a small college town in Texas, I can't tell the difference, and that's good. You don't have to leave where you were born to be cool anymore.

The art of making a film and its content are far more interesting to me than the result or impact.

You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer.