Very few people have no opinions about cats.

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.

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

The door that closed kept us from entering a room, but what now lies before us is the rest of reality.

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that’s loved.

Grace is not opposed to effort; it's opposed to earning.

Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons.

At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.

I can use the teachings of [Charles] Darwin to promote communism.

I'm Beginning To Wonder If It Would Have Been Best Had The South Won The Civil War.