I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.

Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.

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

As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.

An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.