No animal is a better judge of comfort than a cat.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich, but you will have a life of endless interest and variety.

Animals are unpredictable things, and so our life is unpredictable. It's a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you've got to really like it to stick it.

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

Dogs like to obey. It gives them security.

And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly

I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.

As long as man's beliefs, or any part of them, are based on error, he is not completely free, for the chains of error bind his mind.

Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.

You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep.

People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rational behind it.

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

What a lot of people don't know, because in a lot of TV and movies, they have a lot of men talking about computers - it was a woman who invented the first compiler!

Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.

When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.