We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.

Being patted is what it is all about.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with badly-fitting panty hose all over.

Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around.

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand.

Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.

Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible.

Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.

Cats are a tonic, they are a laugh, they are a cuddle, they are at least pretty just about all of the time and beautiful some of the time.

What none of them knew, of course, was that Carrie White was telekinetic.

She grinned, a silty grin. 'You were my two dividends, yes? Don't you forget that.'Then she sighed, took a deep breath, and said, 'But what an investment. My life.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Talking to your hairdresser is almost like talking to your therapist.

I was hired to be an actress, not a personality for the press.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

The Monstrous Regiment of Women.

My 2005 calendar we actually did a shoot in Lake Las Vegas. Since I had requests do some swimwear and athletic shots we tried them and they came out good so we inserted them into the new calendar.

I read more books than you can imagine on all sorts of odd topics, which is something that I love.

There were always a couple of loonies who caused all the trouble.