Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.

Wilderness begins in the human mind.

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?

A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.

We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.

Nature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.