Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop.

Poetry is engendered in solitude, so what better meter for it than the clip of a buckskin horse?

Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean.

Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.

Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn.