We Live Out Our Lives As We

Writing Fantasy Lets Me Imagine A Great Deal More Than, Say, Writing About Alligators, And Lets Me Write About Places More Distant Than Florida, But I Can Tell You Things About Florida And Alligators, Let You Make The Connection All On Your Own.

Growing Up, I Didn't Have A Lot Of Toys, And Personal Entertainment Depended On Individual Ingenuity And Imagination - Think Up A Story And Go Live It For An Afternoon.

A Cat Never Discusses His Business With Humans, Not Even Princesses. A Cat Never Explains And Never Apologizes. A Cat Never Alibis. You Must Accept A Cat As It Is And For What It Is And Not Expect More Than The Pleasure Of Its Company.

Fear Is A Fire To Temper Courage And Resolve. Use It So.

What We Have In Life That We Can Count On Is Who We Are And Where We Come From, She Thought Absently. For Better Or Worse, That's What We Have To Sustain Us In Our Endeavors, To Buttress Us In Our Darker Moments, And To Remind Us Of Our Identity. Without Those Things, We Are Adrift.