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

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?

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.

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.

We can find a new hope every new day and every New Year.

The forest is blanketed by the greenest ferns and moss and bonsai-like trees, a wild majesty that beckons hobbits and pixies and elves and dreamers.

Sometimes all you need is a big leap of faith.

Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.

I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.

Objects of charity are not guests.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

Children are different - mentally, physically, spiritually, quantitatively, qualitatively; and furthermore, they're all a little bit nuts.

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.