Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment.

Kittens can happen to anyone.

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had an ally.

It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

If you like cats and have some, you get kittens; and if you like kittens and enjoy having them about, they grow up and you get more cats.

A cat doesn't linger over making it's desires felt.

This is her home now--of her own free will.

He had waited until I had my door open, then driven away. The perfect gentleman. Sort of like Dracula just before he drank your blood.

It is important for women to do something about what they see.

That wasn’t my future I destroyed, ’ she assured herself. ‘I make my own future.

As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.

I would say my sense of adventure outweighs my grace.

He wore sweatpants and a T-shirt and had stopped in the middle of the hall, furiously scratching one bare forearm. "Fleas?" I said.

You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.

Each of us is the sum of our scars.

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

I always write with images. I cannot write a book if I don't have images.