I was always much too elated to imagine despair.

There are three basic personality factors in cats: The kind who run up when you say hello and rub against you in cheap romance the kind who run away certain that you mean to ravish them and the kind who just look back and don't move a muscle. I love all three kinds.

It's the frames which make some things important and some things forgotten. It's all only frames from which the content rises.

... I find myself coming out of the library with all women writers. I keep hoping the library attendant won't notice, but when 8 out of 8 of the books you take out are by women, you try not to look too dykey.