The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.

A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, sick. --John Steinbeck to Adlai Stevenson

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.

People don't want advice...only corroboration.