It is in games that many men discover their paradise.

A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.

If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats.

The man who will not defend the honour of his cat cannot be trusted to defend anything.

I've experienced plenty of times when something I think is funny doesn't do very well. And there are times when something I don't think is funny makes the audience laugh so hard.

I don't see art as entertainment.

Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends.

I'm not mean, just aggressive.

From an angel's wings to a fallen star, God makes everything but unbreakable hearts.

A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.

It is said that dispensing advice is easy. What is difficult is getting anyone to listen to it.

In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.

When you're rereading or editing your book and you start to expect that this work is going to be reviewed, and you can sort of tell which line is going to show up in reviews.

When you're at an Olympic Games watching someone you've known for a long while and he or she has done something, even if it's only coming in the top 50, then you have a monumental night.