My feelings are a fact, not a personal delusion. They are valid for me. What business have you got trying to tell me how I ought to feel?

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.

I had refused Emerson's well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.

love has a very dulling effect on the brain

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.

He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, "I love you, Mother." He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.

The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.

In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)

The most amazing journey on earth is the journey of oneself.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father.

Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat.

A very Merry Christmas And a happy New Year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear.

Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.

Earthly majesty is always akin to the fallen angel, who is proud and unhappy, beautiful but troubled, and whose plans and efforts, though vast, are denied access.