When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval!

Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.

... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.

I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.

Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.