Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables

Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind?

I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.