Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul.

A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.

Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art?

By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.

No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.

At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens.

Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all.

How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects?

She was the kind of art that was so valuable it wasn't even for sale, and she smiled when she saw Ash. His pulse jumped.

It was one of the few stories we told the same way.

It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed.

Give me strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is.

We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.

It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!

May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.

President Bush has had an outstanding Secretary of State in Colin Powell and there are not many people who could replace him, making Condoleezza Rice an excellent choice.

I am in the penitentiary. The only thing that I do is my time.