Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

I think I am slowly becoming an anarchist, that this is only another label for my privateness, and I think that you will understand this in the sense of being against collectivity.

Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end...

Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.

Adversity purifies the spirit and refines the soul.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound.

The foundation is in place, and now we have to get to work.

I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.

It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.

Just wanting to be more of an example, but letting them know also that I made mistakes when I was a kid; and I'm not expecting you to be perfect.

Saying the universe is eternal simply is saying that it has no beginning or end, not that it had a beginning an infinite time ago