It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.

It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.

Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.

Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.

A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller.

A writer's work is to witness things.

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.