Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.

The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes. No foam-born Aphrodite, she vaguely resembles my old piano teacher, who was keen on metronomes.

Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.

Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun

True allegiance is only given willingly.

I'm convinced that imagination is at the heart of everything we do - in art, science, even astrophysics and higher mathematics. Imagination leads us to ask, "What if?"

If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.