The summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone.

If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.

With their four-dimensional minds, and in their interdisciplinary ultra verbal way, geologists can wiggle out of almost anything.

Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them.

In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.

The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.

Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research.

Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life

I can't stand a sentence until it sounds right.

Almost all Americans would recognize Anchorage, because Anchorage is that part of any city where the city has burst its seams and extruded Colonel Sanders.

I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.

The stomach is a slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.

Christmas is love.

First things first, though, I thought, and headed straight for the liquor cabinet. Times like this call for straight scotch, no rocks.

There's going to be highs and there's going to be lows, try to keep your emotions out of it a little bit.

It just kills me when these girls look at magazines and wish they could look like that. I try to tell them, 'Nobody looks like that. Everything's airbrushed.'

More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

Youth has triumphed (upon defeating 86-year-old Dirk van Foreest).

The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking culture. That is a problem.

You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.

Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.