If the claws didn't retract, cats would be like Velcro

It is a curious truth that many cats enjoy warmer, more convivial, even affectionate relationships with humans than they could ever do with fellow felines.

While you might see a cat on a hot tin roof, a dog on a hot tin roof would be yowling its head off.

I don't think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence.

Certain levels of human understanding cannot be attained, it is claimed, until the brain can work in more than one way.

She, who was bored almost to agony, and who had nothing at all to do, she had not time to think even, seriously, of anything. Time being, after all, only the current of the soul in its flow.

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed.

Talk about your failures without apologizing.

No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.

If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist.... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy liberating.

A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers.

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.