Once I Climbed Into A Mountain Lion's

Summer Is When We Believe, All Of A Sudden, That If We Just Walked Out The Back Door And Kept On Going Long Enough And Far Enough We Would Reach The Rocky Mountains.

The Novelist Screws Up His Courage In Order To Invest Another Two Or Three Years In Another Attempt To Float A Boat Of Original Design Upon An Invented Ocean.

Silence Is Exhilarating At First - As Noise Is - But There Is A Sweetness To Silence Outlasting Exhilaration, Akin To The Sweetness Of Listening And The Velvet Of Sleep.

In Order To Really Enjoy A Dog, One Doesn't Merely Try To Train Him To Be Semi-human. The Point Of It Is To Open Oneself To The Possibility Of Becoming Partly A Dog.

Sophistication" Is Another Word For That Inventive Mix Of Tolerance, Resilience, And Resourcefulness City People Develop.