Perhaps what makes friendship and love exciting is the continuing discovery of another personality.

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.

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too.

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.

Cat lovers know that every cat is remarkable.

A cat is, by and large, sophisticated and complex, and capable of creating three-act plays around any single piece of action.