What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?.

Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not..

I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud..

A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up..

I taught writing for a while and whenever somebody would tell me they were going to write about their dad, I would tell them they might as well go wr….

What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity..

In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine..

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony..

The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they ….

love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins.

I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry department. And I wrote some go….

And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the univers….

Dr. Brainard Keyes Bullard, President of Wyandotte College, said in an address tonight that most of the worlds ills can be traced to the fact that Ma….

Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always got much sicker until….

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy..

My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’.

Novelists are people who have discovered that they can dampen their neuroses by writing make-believe. We will keep on doing that no matter what, whil….

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are..

The hopes and fears of all our years are here with us tonight..

The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. Military science, on the other hand, treats man as garbage - and his….

All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist..