Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

If the marriage needs help, the answer almost always is have more fun. Drop your list of grievances and go ride a roller coaster.

She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block.

It is more worthy in the eyes of God . . . if a writer makes three pages sharp and funny about the lives of geese than to make three hundred fat and flabby about God or the American people.

It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you.