One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential part of the economy.

A dog wakens your heart to joy and companionship.

Bears being sent through the mail should never be squashed up to make them fit. It gives them indigestion.

The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions- 'it wasn't Jezebels fault, Dad.'

If you've only one breath left, use it to say thank you.

The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you.