Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.

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

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

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

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

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

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.