He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone, this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls, My cat.

The cat is, above all things, a dramatist.

Dogs have owners, cats have staff.

A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug.

But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.

All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority.

Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.

Success is like a liberation or the first phase of a love affair.

Today is yesterday's effect and tomorrow's cause.

Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story

Germany and other countries have protested to the U.S. We have to make it clear again and again that millions of jobs in the U.S. depend on trade with the EU.

Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.

The world's culture is changing, adapting. People are keeping what's good in a culture, and sweeping out the rest.

These aren't like logging roads to get those blades in there. They're greater than 40 feet in width, almost like a superhighway.

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.

The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.