If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.

When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.

Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything - including their own sins.

there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.

The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.

I knew the answer, and--of course--so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.

Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.

Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.

You're not winged because you are flying on a dragon

One can't do anything without a man. Men know so much, and are able to get information in so many ways that are simply impossible to women.

Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

Even if one doesn't smoke pot, one has to see the benefits of decriminalizing it.

It's easy to see that two people might come up with that same idea.

Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar.

When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.

I now realize that I was very fortunate to have grown up in many different places, surrounded by all kinds of people, all kinds of points of view.