Note 4. For these and other reasons the cat is also very hard to photograph. The best photographs are instantaneous, as the mere breathing of a cat will blur the fur in a time exposure.

There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.

The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?

One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.

The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.

Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.

The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.

A cat is never vulgar.

Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.

A thing of beauty is a boy forever.

You must be determined to overcome the insults of the ungodliness of this world with the weapon of the light inside of you.

My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people.

The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

I love black truffles. I love white truffles.

Rich people are poor people with money.

All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

Fortune is either with you or it's not.

Everybody is two beings: one lives and flourishes in the daylight and stands guard. The other being walks and howls at night.