all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war

What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves.

It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question itself. Dumb terror had moved those stones so big

A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.

My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur.