A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.

Never believe that animals suffer less than humans. Pain is the same for them that it is for us. Even worse, because they cannot help themselves.

Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other.

There is something about the presence of a cat... that seems to take the bite out of being alone.

Never ask a hungry cat whether he loves you for yourself alone.

With dogs and people, it's love in big splashy colours. When you're involved with a cat, you're dealing in pastels.

Work - other people's work - is an intolerable idea to a cat. Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart? They will not inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree.

In my experience, cats and beds seem to be a natural combination.

Loneliness is not lack of companion

The lord works in mysterious ways. Indeed. And a shorter way to say that is: God is a sneak.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

Short stories that's all it's ever been Don't you worry 'bout the ending Babe, before we begin I have seen the sun That's behind the rain I have felt the joy That's behind the pain.

The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.

Gradually I became aware that professing English because I loved poems was like practicing vivisection because I loved dogs.

Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened.

I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.