When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

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.

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.

Morals are private. Decency is public.