Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.
As soon as a regular guy like Bill Clinton becomes the president, he wears a mantle of greatness. He's the president.
I came to understand that a German nudist, in 1984, loved little more than to work on his or her tan.
You're lucky if people like your book, and the more people that like it, the luckier I feel.
My motto is, if you love something, don't set it free. No matter how hard it struggles. That would be stupid.
African elephants have long been thought of as a single species, but a critical mass of genetic studies now proves there are two.
There is a lot of contradictions of mermaids as a symbol. I'm always interested in contradictions.
Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.
People from the rest of the state tend to hate Phoenix, with that typical resentment of the boroughs and the towns for the big city.
Shouldn't the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature?
Work-wise, I try not to repeat myself too often. And I have to love whatever I'm doing.
Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have long recognized this.
As soon as a regular guy like Bill Clinton becomes the president, he wears a mantle of greatness. He's the president.