The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.

The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.

It was a needless precaution, I felt sure, but men always enjoy marching around with weapons and flexing their figurative muscles, and I saw no reason to deny them this harmless exercise.

Men are so easy to manipulate, poor things.

Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true, and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels.

And then there was an explosion.

I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

I say if you fight terrorism, it's based in fear, but if you promote peace, it's based on hope.

I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.

She fell apart because that's what happens.

I believe the best social program is a job.

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.