Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich, but you will have a life of endless interest and variety.

Animals are unpredictable things, and so our life is unpredictable. It's a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you've got to really like it to stick it.

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

No animal is a better judge of comfort than a cat.

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

Dogs like to obey. It gives them security.

And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly

I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.

Childish and slender creature! It seemed as if a linnet had hopped to my foot and proposed to bear me on its tiny wing.

The single fact of existing is already a true happiness.

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

There is no reward equal to that of doing the most good to the most people in the most need.

We like to read others but we do not like to be read.

I have dipped into Ian McEwan and so on. I tend not to stick with one writer. But I dip in here and there.

My friends and I love having girls' nights in. We're hardly ever all in the same city, but when we're finally able to hang out, we make the most of it.

I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that.

I got a lot of texts from friends and emails from friends and most of them were just pure jealousy.

Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole thing.