Single life should be experimental in nature and open to accidents. Some accidents are happy ones.

Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.

We don't get enough pampering. If we were once the only child of an adoring mother, we developed a taste for it; if not, we developed a thirst for it.

a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.

Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn't come this year, but dogwoods have faith.

Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all.

True ownership of anything requires time.

New York was where we wanted to live when we were finally grown up, and drink martinis and stay out past bedtime.

There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!

By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.

The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.

The intensity of Intellectual suffering in Man is same as Emotional suffering in a Woman.

It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

I'm pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.

I feel like I gave my son to this country in an illegal and immoral war. I'll never get him back.

When a figure painter executes a landscape he treats it as if it were a face; Degas' landscapes are unparalleled because they are visionary landscapes.

Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.

I can handle scars, especially ones that are on the outside." I understand his meaning from the depths of my heart.

I just want something that is real and that moves people. And just want to make something real.

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.