I love to write and I love the natural world. Everything I've written about I've found exciting and it has never left me at a loss for words. I've always just done what I love.

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

I love to travel, but when I really want to escape, I read a book.

I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine.

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.

There is something all life has in common, and when I know what it is I shall know myself.

I just love the world around me and wanted my audience to love and appreciate it too.

That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids.

Cat talk is a complicated, self-centered language. If you speak to your cat first, it probably won't speak back. Cats initiate conversations.

Chicken is Good! It tastes like chicken.

Cats ... are completely self-sufficient and can leave you at any time and go off and make a living. And yet cats can have warm and loving relationships with humans.

Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies

It is human nature to try hardest to accomplish the very thing we are told is impossible.  Why?  Because innately we know that nothing's impossible.

I have the feeling when I write poetry that I'm doing what I'm supposed to do. You don't think about whether you're going to get money or fame you just do it.

The richer we are, the longer we live. And the longer we live, the more expensive it is to take care of our diseases as we get older.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

I always rib people, but nobody ever gives me a hard time. I don't know why. Maybe they're afraid of what I might say. There's probably a lesson in that somewhere, but I don't know what it is.

You can do it if you believe you can.

All things lead us to our innermost truth. That is their purpose. That is the purpose of Life itself. Life is truth, revealing Itself to Itself.

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

When you're a screenwriter, it's like being a mechanic. You open the hood of the story, the director is the driver, and he says, "What do you think? It's a little tough."