I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.

People are like tea bags; you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.

While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.

Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.

Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.

Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.