Given that 80 percent plus of the U.S. population lives in cities and suburbs, the connection with nature is fading to the detriment of all living creatures.

They’re walking around in clothing but they’re still the same animals who lived in caves, feared the dark, and smashed one another over the head for beans.

Small log cabin once stood near the creek, but as the Jones family’s fortunes

Full bloom, the pastures turning an impossible emerald green, she

No one is ever safe. So why not live as much as you can?

At least Jennifer was beyond being tormented by itchy dresses.

Because the real worship is not one man, one vote, it’s one man, one dollar. Commerce drives democracy, not vice versa.

I don’t care whether they like me or not. Everybody’s stupid, that’s what I think. I care if I like me, that’s what I truly care about.

Then you stay in that root cellar until Jesus comes back.

You can't pee in front of little Lord Jesus, go back to the hills.

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

In school they told us the president was the best man in the whole country but I knew my father was the best man in the whole country; the country didn't know it, that's all.

Anyway, how did I know the president was for real? I never saw him, just pictures in the paper and they can make those up. How do you know someone is real if you don't see him?

Course I didn't want to be a doctor. I was going to be president only I kept it secret.

Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voil !

The tax code will never be simplified in our lifetime because it’s not about taxes; it’s about congressmen distributing the pork.

You gay?” “Oh, I wouldn’t say I was gay. I’d just say I was enchanted.” “Me too.

Everybody gets married. It's something you have to do, like dying.

I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.

You have nothing to fear in life, not you, not anyone, because every bad thing you think can happen will- but not always in the form you imagine

I'm not an addictive personality, I just like getting high, that's all.

Well, we're just All-American queers.

Do you think it's possible that love multiples? We're taught to think it divides. There's only so much to go around, like diamonds. It multiples.

My tombstone is going to say: 'Born: Yes. Died: Yes.