Nothing makes a house cozier than cats.

A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart.

Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too.

the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.

the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.

Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.

nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!

Dog lovers are a good breed themselves.

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.

Everything that is, casts a shadow

An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they have Tide but not new Tide with lemon-fresh Borax.

But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear weapons.

Trust happens when leaders are transparent.

Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.

I paint a woman's big rounded buttocks so that I want to reach out and stroke the dimpled flesh.

The revolution starts now.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!