From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength.

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

Fell in love first, Fell in love quickly—Like I was pushed.Fell in love next, Fell in love slowly—Like I was strolling.Falling in love now And feeling crazy.Thinking of closing my eyesAnd jumping.

You feel more like home to me than any place I've ever been.

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

My daughter got me a 'World's Best Dad' mug. So we know she's sarcastic.

There are days when everyone in the world looks like a Diane Arbus to me. She's a genius but her work is completely different to mine. But on those days I don't use my camera.

I'm no Ripley. I had doubts that I could play her as strongly as she had to be played, but I must say that it was fun exploring that side of myself. Women don't get to do that very often.