A cat’s secrets run so deep that even the cat itself is often unaware. Their mysteries are as natural as whiskers.

Once bitten, twice shy. Once caring, twice cry.Once beloved, can’t deny—heart broken, twice die.

Zookeeper foible #1: Tendency to not equate fur and scale with fracture and scar.

Better to honor the pinch of fear than regret the punch of fang.

For most secrets are kept by these: the darkness, the silence, and the cat.

The cat is beauty and the beast, a baffling blend, a wicked feast.For all who dream of varied light, the cat holds both the dark and bright.

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

There's nothing sillier than fake rough edges, like the handheld camera you sometimes see on "NYPD Blue," shaking and jittering around, unmotivated, way more than any actual documentary camera would.

The Americans are impatient by nature.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

I guess I am conscious of my weaknesses, and I think pacing is probably my biggest. I don't know if I think the clarity thing is actually a weakness. It was a stylistic choice.

I took the wife's family out for tea biscuits. They weren't too happy about having to give blood though.

You need to learn patience, you grasshopper

A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.