I do not believe that it is possible to teach a cat to obey; that is contrary to his nature.

Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit.

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.

Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and the tang of the North Sea is never far away.

one doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger.

Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw.

Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.

suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon, you know. It can be the ultimate revenge, leaving a scar that a living person may carry to the grave.

The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited.

Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.

You are accountable for your own victory or misery

One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility. I never thought I would type that I learned how to emote in poems from watching Star Trek but there it is.

Standing in a two-hour line makes people worry that they're not living in a democratic nation. People stand in line for two houres and they go over the edge.

I read the newspaper.

Why bad things happen to good people

I have to satisfy my audience.

Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses.

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

I must really confess right here, the attraction was purely physical.