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

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

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and smile.

Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn.

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.

To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.