"I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, …"

"He didn’t jump; I crept closer. At last I knelt on the island’s winter killed grass, lost, dumbstruck, staring at the…"

"After a natural disaster such as a flood, nature "stages a comeback." People use the optimistic expression without an…"

"The intricacy of Ellery and aphids multiplied mindlessly into tons and light-years is more than extravagance; it is h…"

"Whenever a work's structure is intentionally one of its own themes, another of its themes is art."

"Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter …"

"There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The …"

"After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in e…"

"On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of the conditions. Does anyone h…"

"[M]any carnivorous animals devour their prey alive. The usual method seems to be to subdue the victim by downing or g…"