To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.

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.

We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't choose their direction.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

Family is fun, way more fun than music.

When you have a steady job you're more inspired to broaden yourself.

To help someone who is down on their luck is admirable. To help an adversary who is down on their luck is divine.

As a professional journalist, I have always been fascinated by people who appear to have even more spare time than I do.

We'll fight 'em until hell freezes over, then we'll fight 'em on the ice.

When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government.

Everything is an experience. You learn something different from everything you do.