A good recipe for a human reducing breakfast is a lot of good things to eat, and three spaniels and two cats to eat with.

I know of nothing to compare with the welcome a dog gives you when you come home.

My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred. ... I am simply basted together until after breakfast.

There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer.

What would happen if all the populations on the planet simply refused to fight human beings they did not even know?

History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town.

The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.