What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

The warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul.

People do not want advice - they want corroboration.

Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practised it through the ages.

Orange and speckled and fluted nudibranchs slide gracefully over the rocks, their skirts waving like the dresses of Spanish dancers.

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.

Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.