I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's my...

I can remember that on the shelves at home, there were these books by Thomas Wolfe. 'Look Homeward Angel' and 'Of Time and the River.' 'Of Time and the River' had just co...

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short...

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eterni...

Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost...

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is fir...

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and dest...

I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But once I had a little exposure...

Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor - women can't drive, things like that....

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what...

Nerds... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the creature. The word has connotations of some level of intelligence....

Love is the ultimate expression of...