After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

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.

A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.

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

All agreed that Quickset was the cleverest cat in the world. And, since Quickset had the same opinion, it was surely true.

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

I loved all the world's mythologies.