I always thought that my canine family tended to view me as the funny-looking two-legged dog who runs the can opener.

Being patted is what it is all about.

We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with badly-fitting panty hose all over.

Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around.

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand.

Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.

Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible.

Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.

I love you with all the shadows in the world for eternity.

You want success on different levels. I wouldn't be honest if I said I don't look over there in the pop world and say, "Man, that's attractive" - Adele selling 100,000 albums a week. A week.

On 139 and Lenox Ave there's a big park, and if you're soft don't go through it when it gets dark

You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

The nice thing about England is that they actually speak English.

We all have things that will knock us down, but there's always something that will pick you back up. It's about those moments that make everything worthwhile.

Chimps act the way they feel unless they are afraid of reprisal if they do so. But that doesn't apply to humans.

The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.

People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves.