No means everything to a dog, nothing to a cat.

Guilt didn't put any butter on the bread of life.

A cat is better than you are, more honest, more graceful, smarter for her size, better coordinated, and infinitely more beautiful.

From talk radio to insult radio wasn't really that much of a leap.

To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free.

who hasn't slept in an empty bed sometimes, longing for the embrace of another person on the achingly short trip to the grave?

Catch a dog in your favorite chair, and he slinks away abashed. The cat will pretend incomprehension; surely you must know it's her chair?

If God did not intend the cat to live happily with humankind, why is there a meow in the middle of the word 'hoMEOWner'?

"Exercise" is such a dirty word in my household that whenever I even think of it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

You're my equal. And as much as that means we have each other's backs in public, it also means we that grant each other the gift of honesty - of truth.

Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.

Respectable Protestant denominations retreated inside...leaving...unaffiliated madwomen to evangelize alfresco...

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.

The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, "See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk".

Most people think of poise as calm, self-assured dignity; but I call it “just being you”.

People have a right to criticize.

Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.