A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.

Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.

If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.

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

Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.

Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.

In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.