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.

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

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.

Life, after we'd had a few millennia to observe it, turned out to be dreadfully unfair, so we invented sports.

No, ' she says, as if the suggestion is ridiculous. 'I wouldn't go back to where I'm from. I'd go someplace I've never been.

Quit talkin' about it and be about it!

The distance had been evaporated by humor

You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new.

Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.

The epiphany for me was that I wasnt a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.

The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story and then made a book report on it for four straight years.

A total absence of self-doubt is the first sign of insanity.