To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.
Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor. 
It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.
Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.
Sophistication is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop.
Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts. 
There are two kinds of writers: hustlers and sanctimonious hustlers. 
There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all. 
Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn. 
A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller ... 
No birdcall is the musical equal of a clarinet blown with panache. 
If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife. 
Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity. 
Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents. 
Don't be afraid of the dark." She tousled his hair tolerantly. "I've never known a man who wasn't scared of more things than I was. 
Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run. 
Poetry is engendered in solitude, so what better meter for it than the clip of a buckskin horse? 