Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.