Cricket was my reason for living.
Knowing cats, a lifetime of cats, what is left is a sediment of sorrow quite different from that due to humans: compounded of pain for their helplessness, of guilt on behalf of us all.
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Every child has the capacity to be everything.
I love reality shows. The folks who dream up some of these concepts are either geniuses, or totally stoned.
In order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.
I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.
We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.