Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life

If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.

With their four-dimensional minds, and in their interdisciplinary ultra verbal way, geologists can wiggle out of almost anything.

Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them.

In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.

The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.

Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research.

I can't stand a sentence until it sounds right.

Almost all Americans would recognize Anchorage, because Anchorage is that part of any city where the city has burst its seams and extruded Colonel Sanders.

I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.

Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness

In secret we met -In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive.If I should meet theeAfter long years, How should I greet thee? -With silence and tears

Mind is effort, while heart is effortless! What are YOU?

Don't let anyone ever tell you that you can't have it all - they just don't have the juice to figure it out.

In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.

Relationships are about helping motivate each other to be all that you can be

When I was a kid I ate sports books up, like "Winners Never Quit" by Phil Pepe. That was like my bible.

Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.

The relationship, the marriage, the commitment, the partnership... This is the holy ground.

The only purpose of starting is to finish

We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.