Cats and books are my universe. Both are infinitely fascinating and full of mystery.

Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us...

Infinite possibilities exist within the art of storytelling. To me, it is nothing less than the magic of creation.

I see all of you, Rhys. And there is not one part that I do not love with everything I am.

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Excerpts from Life, Simplified can be found on my website.

I felt the smile grow from within, starting in my chest and making its way up to my face. If what the guru had said about auras and energy was accurate, I must have been glowing.

Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.

True honor does not crave recognition, as true wisdom craves not publicity. The great heroes and the great men of wisdom walk silently through the bypaths of mankind.

We were really sick of silver.

Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us.

(Obama) really has no experience or knowledge or judgment about the issue of Iraq and he has wanted to surrender for a long time.

The people who dream are very often the people who see, and dreaming and seeing precede doing.