Summer is when we believe, all of a sudden, that if we just walked out the back door and kept on going long enough and far enough we would reach the Rocky Mountains.

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.

He had been born into debt, as had his father and his father before him. Indenture and slavery were two words for the same thing.

What we have to learn from the women of Africa is that every day is worth living.

When I was coming up the DC Improv was considered the best Improv out there. It's always been high quality stuff coming out of there.

Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me.

Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.

Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.

We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.

You meet new people. We just spent two hours with people we didn't know before, just talking about the Badgers.

Your troubles may point you to death and destruction, but God's Word points you to life.