There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.

Knowing and doing are two separate things, and don't always sync up in life.

Delay of justice is injustice.

And the world so hard to understand is the world you can't live without.

Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.

The question I hate the most is "How did you DO it - write novels and raise your children simultaneously!" I mean, do MALE authors get asked that??

Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us.

Maybe if audiences all over the world would check out animation from other countries, filmmakers would be more sophisticated and experimental.

Women are much more honourable than men.

In general, the Western body has become a global brand.