The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say - and to f…

What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world-temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist will sin…

One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter: 'Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.'

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

The politician is : trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wou…

One day when I was twenty-three or twenty-four this sentence seemed to form in my head, without my willing it, much as sentences form when we are half-asleep: …