Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.", 1964)

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

My eyes, I have filled with Jesus upon Whom I have fixed them at the Elevation of the Host at Holy Mass and I do not wish to replace Him with any other image

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

If there be a true way that leads to the Everlasting Kingdom, it is most certainly that of suffering, patiently endured.

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

Time spent with a cat is never wasted.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

I was wounded by a blow of love.

Dot Hacker, to me, sounds like a collection of all my tastes. I hear four people trying to fill up as much space as they can.

Any horse can win on any given day.

While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.

I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.

I will never tire from repeating my commitment to ensuring that every Brazilian can have breakfast, lunch and supper every day.

General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.

Now get some clothes on before the women around here are driven into a frenzy." He gave me a mournful look. "I'm afraid that'll happen with or without clothes, my dear.

[Edward Snowden and his team] they're great characters. They're fascinating people. They were in an extraordinary situation.