I love both the way a dog looks up to me and a cat condescends to me.

Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths.

The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.

Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew.

Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper.

Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.

November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.