Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

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

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.

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

Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.

Indeed, if "biology is chemistry with history," as somebody has said, then nature writing is biology with love.