The ocean filled the footprints where a boy and cat had stood.

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

She compares the deepest wells of depression to gestation, to a time enclosed, a secluded lightlessness in which, unknown and unforced, we grow.

Ethel and Frances found a means for consolation together: travel.

Knowledge without wisdom is like a beautiful lady without morals

Of course I want the moon. And were you to offer it, I'd propose as a trade the stars in my eyes.

To realize truth, you must cross all boundaries of all religions and all prophets

There is no more direct or honest person than Jim Clapper.

Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives privileges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. Jackasses remain. Triumphant.

The Christian's comfort: I am not my own. I do not make my own rules or create my own identity. There is one who made me and can save me.

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

Who wouldn't prefer having breakfast in bed to getting up at the crack of dawn and having a cup of coffee in a studio makeup department?