I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.

Count the deed, not the thought.

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.

Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart.

The dear girl, I fear, may be contemplating some alarming, disruptive perhaps dangerous project. In which case, I would naturally do all in my power to keep her from any such rash or foolhardy enterprise – unless she wished me to accompany her.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.