Weeds are out most successful cultivated crop.

To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.

Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and culture.

Perhaps knowing one place intimately is to have a way of knowing all places.

Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

When I write, I usually follow my most inner voice, sometimes called stream of consciousness.

Tell her we don’t bite.” “I don’t lie to my friends.

The fact that I have a job that people even watch is an incredible gift.

The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right, White as a knuckle and terribly upset. It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here.