Integrity rings like fine glass. True, clear, and reassuring.

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.

Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity.

Joy came always after pain.

I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture.

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards

Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.

The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.

I want a cheeseburger so badly, but I have to be a vampire in a few weeks.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

Few gynecologists recommend to their heterosexual patients the most foolpoof of solutions, namely, misterectomy.

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.