The Big Talent Is Persistence.

Civilization Is The Way One's Own People Live. Savagery Is The Way Foreigners Live.

A Tree Cannot Grow In Its Parents' Shadows.

I Was Raised Baptist, And I Like The Fact That I Got My Conscience Installed Early.

Here I Was Into Astronomy, And Here Into Anthropology, And There I Go Into Geology. It Was Much More Fun To Be Able To Research And Write About Whatever I Wanted To.

Helpless Lust And Unreasoning Anxiety Were Just Part Of Growing Up.