There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.

I assume then, that you have no real faith in the fondness any of the rest of us may feel for you?''None,' said Mrs. Halloran.

All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this...

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.

I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up your pen and finish writing when you put down your pen again; a writer is always writing, seeing everything through a thin mist of words, fitting swift little descriptions to everything he sees, always noticing. Just as I believe that a painter cannot sit down to his morning coffee without noticing what color it is, so a writer cannot see an odd little gesture without putting a verbal description to it, and ought never to let a moment go by undescribed.

On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.

Wear your boots if you wander today