It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

Integrity rings like fine glass. True, clear, and reassuring.

Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.

Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling.

For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters . An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That's the thing.

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