[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

Thanks to the growing strength of environmental organizations, there will always be some back country to provide us with a touch of wonder and a breath of fresh air.

Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?

We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. We have all jogged and panted it out the whole way.

Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.

Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.