Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.

It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.

In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.

Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.

Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.

We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.