There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.

What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.

All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.

We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!

Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.