I'm better with my hands and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on to eat from to store your clothes in.

Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then only a few feet away in the cookbook section just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics mistakes are wounding emotionally but you recover. Personally wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms helps me reflect and in the process restore my creativity.

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel read 2 000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

Pet stores just sell their animals.

I was in New York and I walked into this pet store and came out with a dog.

I've teamed up with PetSmart Charities to celebrate the five million homeless pets who've found homes through their in-store adoption centers and to spread the word about how we can work together to save millions more pets' lives and ultimately end pet homelessness.

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats a pet store seems to say 'Here we couldn't think of anything else.' Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority but there's only so much hoopla applicable to them.

I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.

I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.

In Hawaii we have something called Ho'oponopono where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance.

TRUE permanent peace can never be restored until slavery the occasion of the war has ceased.

It is not to be disguised that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace which they would effect is superficial false and temporary.