By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.

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!

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.

The little queen lived in a world where the sky swirled like the sea and nothing was itself for very long. Everything looked to be in brushstrokes.

have a mind so quiet, that you can hear doves whispering as they rest their wings in the rafters your silent sanctuary

We’ve run out of comforting things to say.

Bill Heseltine had been at university with me, at the University of Western Australia. I knew him well.

If I wasn't me, I'd want to be me.

What is a well-chosen collection of pictures, but walls hung round with thoughts?

Man makes religion, religion does not make man

I paint a woman's big rounded buttocks so that I want to reach out and stroke the dimpled flesh.

When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

Hear the meaning within the word.