When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense – just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can’t imagine what writing will be like in 2154.

Baseball is a conversation between generations, a link to the past, and a bridge to the future

Mutual fear is a principal link in the chain of mutual love

A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.

I have many problems in my life. But my lips don’t know that. They always smile.

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.