Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.

Morning has broken Like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird.

It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.

All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.

We do not lose our friends when they die, we only lose sight of them.

The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

It seems to me there are no rules, only instances; but perhaps that is because I learned no rules, and am only an instance myself.

Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.

No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.

He bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but something beyond all consciousness that was both of them.

In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received.

He wondered if anyone really ever changed, or if stuff just piled on and on, covering up, but never erasing all the different parts. How deep would you have to dig to find who you started out as?

I am a selfish, conceited, impudent little animal, it is true, but, after all, I am only one grand conglomeration of Wanting…

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.

Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results.

I read books when I have time. I probably spend a third of the time watching TV, and the rest of it is reading, but I read.

I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.

Such sorrow— The cry of true compassion Sinks into my hard ego.