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

Kittens can happen to anyone.

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

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

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.

Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it.

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.

We are all riding on the same bus.

I saw Linus Pauling as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century's greatest chemist. No doubt about it.

Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It's when a scene works emotionally and it's cool and clever, then it's great. That's what you want.

Lightning crashed on the horizon. A breeze swirled around the Cast Members. The air tasted dusty, almost bitter, with electrical charge.

I like to think that good people win. But even good people have other sides. Most people will slow down to get a good look at an accident, even though they won't admit it.

Coal is good for humanity, coal is good for prosperity, coal is an essential part of our economic future, here in Australia, and right around the world.

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.