"I don’t think you should write about anything you don’t know about."

"I have always been fond of children. I have always been fond of animals. I have always been fond of nature."

"One of the things I like about living in the country is that I can say anything I like and nobody hears me but the cows."

"The human mind is a wonderful thing. It can make you believe anything."

"Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do."