“An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. ”

“The dream begins, most of the time,with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth”

“I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled.”

“Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.”

“I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes. ”

“I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addic...”

“Even the Middle Ages, which condemned and punished animals in due form, was in this way much closer to them than we are. They held them to be guilty: which was a way of honoring them. We take them ...”

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”

“Firearms, if you think about it, are power tools. They drill holes in things and chew things up. Thats their purpose. The purpose of the user is, quite simply, to puncture and destroy the right thi...”

“In the end, the focus on safety should be credited to the entire firearms-owning community, the gun culture if you will.”

“Learning how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them. Harder, maybe. There'd be a sight more frogs in this world if I didn't know how not to turn people into them. And big pink ballo...”

“My girl, always hated frogs, Jackie stated when shed controlled her hilarity.Thats right, Mom, Feb leveled her irate eyes at her mother, Im a girl therefore I hate frogs. Id get kicked out of the g...”

“My girl, always hated frogs,” Jackie stated when she’d controlled her hilarity.“That’s right, Mom,” Feb leveled her irate eyes at her mother, “I’m a girl therefore I hate frogs. I’d get kicked out ...”