I consider the 3 most cruelly produced foods to be from lobsters, dropped alive into boiling water, veal from calves separated from their mothers and kept in crates, and pate de foie gras.

For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.

What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

You can give of your talent, you can give of your possessions, or you can give of yourself. For God's sake, give something.

Support your right to arm bears.

...one of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.

I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a mans man.

Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.

There were three terrible ages of childhood - zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

Desire is the key to motivation, but determination, commitment, and actions are the keys to success.

As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.

They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure there was a place for her. She would always be able to say, Someone is coming. I am not alone.

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

Decades go faster toward the end of a century.

Your real job in this world is to be you.

This is perfect for India because everyone who comes here gets the trots.

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

When you have something that close to you, you want to make sure that you're aware of it.

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.