Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet's life.
My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.
We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.
Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.
While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.
I adore the company of other writers because they are so often lively minds and, frequently, blazingly funny. And of course, we get each other in a unique way.
I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
What is the constitution of the universe? The universe is the manifestation of the divine thought; the thought of God embodies itself in the thought-forms that we call worlds.
I was just going at this career - boom, boom, boom! Then all of a sudden, at 38, Oh, my God - I forgot to get married!
Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.
Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.
A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.
Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity, of patronizing kindness. It is a matter of intense self-interest.
I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are the same.
The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.
Competing in show jumping is a school of life. And it's one of the few Olympic sports where men and women are equal.
All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.
I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.
I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it.