If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

Llonio said life was a net for luck; to Hevydd the Smith life was a forge; and to Dwyvach the Weaver-Woman a loom. They spoke truly, for it is all of these. But you,' Taran said, his eyes meeting the potter's, 'you have shown me life is one thing more. It is clay to be shaped, as raw clay on a potter's wheel.

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.

You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.

For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.