Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!

The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

Modesty was made for the ugly.

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

Open confession is good for the soul.

Most people do not pray they only beg.

Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.

I need a healthy injection of cynicism right now.

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth.

The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

And the walls became the world all around.

You can argue with someone's opinion, but you can't argue with their story.

He has such a clear vision of exactly what he wanted out of each character, out of each set, out of each wardrobe change, out of each emotional beat, and action.

Why not start over because every promise made is not kept, why not start over so the American people can debate [the health care law] again?!