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.

Unlike some people who have experienced the loss of an animal, I did not believe, even for a moment, that I would never get another. I did know full well that there were just too many animals out there in need of homes for me to take what I have always regarded as the self-indulgent road of saying the heartbreak of the loss of an animal was too much ever to want to go through with it again. To me, such an admission brought up the far more powerful admission that all the wonderful times you had with your animal were not worth the unhappiness at the end.

A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

Support your right to arm bears.

Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl.

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.

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