No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British which amazes Americans who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

Kittens can happen to anyone.

Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment.

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had an ally.

It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

If you like cats and have some, you get kittens; and if you like kittens and enjoy having them about, they grow up and you get more cats.

A cat doesn't linger over making it's desires felt.

Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.

Research conquers doubt. It aligns everyone around the incontestable. Research is the key to clarity—in startups, enterprises, and life itself.

A hundred pounds! He couldn't remember ever having seen a hundred pounds, all at one time. He found himself envying his father, who had nothing to worry about except the future of mankind.

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.

The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.

I saw no evidence during my week in Gaza of Israel’s accusation that Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields.

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a lot to be wary about.

I'm not at all sure that the concept of the readymade isn't the most important single idea to come out of my work.