Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

If you care about someone enough, you’ll always be there for them no matter what.

She sniffled. "Does he know?""Not a clue, " Law said. "There are concrete bricks less dense than my beloved.

When people ask me how I am I tell them......"I'm present

It is a curious fact that with 'Through the Looking-Glass' the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me... I have done nothing in that direction since.

My father instilled in me a love for racing.

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.

I just feel like there hasn't been enough time away from all this other stuff and into this new world or sort of big world that it hasn't worn off yet.

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke?

It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish Nation.