In truth, most of us don't know our cats.

As the cherub is to the angel, so the cat is to the tiger.

Dogs who chase cars evidently see them as large, unruly ungulates badly in need of discipline and shepherding.

People can be a fine substitute for other dogs. But I think that if they had to choose, dogs by and large would choose the company of other dogs.

What do dogs want? They want each other. Human beings are merely a cynomorphic substitute.

No cat purrs unless someone is around to listen.

With all due respect to the nation's fish and game departments, more deer die because people hunt them than because people feed them.

People didn't think animals thought or remembered or had minds! They most certainly do: any pet owner knows more than a lot of scientists about animals.

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

Rocks crumble, make new forms, oceans move the continents, mountains rise up and down like ghosts yet all is natural, all is change.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

Africa is an extraordinary opportunity at the moment

I'm just so extremely lucky to have amazing Enchancers and all people around me.

Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest.

[Georges] Simenon could be very brave like that. You never quite know what you're going to get or how the story's going to be told.

All forgiveness is self forgiveness.