I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.

We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.

Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.

All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this...

I am going to put death in all their food and watch them die.

All cat stories start with the statement: 'My mother, who was the first cat, told me this, ' and I lay with Jonas listening to his stories.

When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, perhaps because he had very few ideas and had to wring each one dry.

There will come a timewhen the space will compress itself, and the body shall go.But, till that day I'll live ebullientlyand grow.

I hold my plush monkey over the bannister and let it drop. Its eyes light up when you squeeze its kidneys as whose eyes, I suppose, would not.

My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.

Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble

If I were president, I would turn the tables and allow the fetus to abort its mother.

Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad.

To me, NOTHING is 'new'.

You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.

Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.

I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.