Wake in the deepest dark of night and hear the driving rain. Reach out a hand and take a paw and go to sleep again.

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well - almost.

You can kid the world, but not your sister.

I will protect you until you are grown and then I will let you fly free, but loving you, that is for always.

Children and mothers never truly part--Bound in the beating of each other's hearts.

Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life.

We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.

Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives

People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.

Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf.

Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear.

When a husband and wife are concerned only about their own individual desires, the stage is set for conflict.

I have come to discover that the reason why they are so wealthy and prosperous is not because they were lying on the couch all day.

I played every bad guy in Shakespeare.

I will lead mankind into a new world! You cannot kill me! No man can murder me!

We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.

People like to re-invent you, according to cliché. There are a lot of stores about me that really apply only to Capote or Mailer or somebody else. Everything is a mish mash.

We all make mistakes, and it's not until we make mistakes that we learn.

Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.