The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill!

A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.

Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.