All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason , and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.
If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.
A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.
Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.
Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.
Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
People always ask 'Why is Bubba different?' They're just trying to figure it out.