Focus on being the best you can at what you want to do.
I have a lot of books I want to write.
Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, No.
Do we pour $40 billion into grandiose Louisiana engineering projects or do we instead put up no trespassing- signs in the areas below sea level? All are hard choices with various merits and pains. The important thing, however, is for America to decide whether the current policy of inaction is really the way we want to deal with the worst natural disaster in our history.
Animals interest me more than anything else.
I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.
Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.
Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.
But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.
Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.
Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.