My friends and I were all deathly afraid of our fathers, which was right and proper and even biblically ordained. Fathers were angry; it was their job.

Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.

We don't get enough pampering. If we were once the only child of an adoring mother, we developed a taste for it; if not, we developed a thirst for it.

a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.

Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn't come this year, but dogwoods have faith.

Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all.

True ownership of anything requires time.

New York was where we wanted to live when we were finally grown up, and drink martinis and stay out past bedtime.

There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!

By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.

The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.

The world under your feet is changing & you never noticed, it's on you. If you're changing & the world failed to notice, it's not on you...

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

I'll sleep when no one wants to hire me!

When it's time to write a new song, anything that you thought you understood last time is pretty much pulverized.

Computers are like humans - they do everything except think.

Stillness is the ruler of haste.

Most of us are better when things go better.

Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things.

All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.

Neither our vices nor our virtues further the poem.