The main idea is to win.
I will write another book if I feel like it.
If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.
There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.
It was Sunday morning (one a. m. ), a not unusual time for some farmers, after a late Saturday night, to have a look round their stock and decide to send for the vet.
I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.
They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.
Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.
I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist.
I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.
We are cruel enough without meaning to be.