suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon, you know. It can be the ultimate revenge, leaving a scar that a living person may carry to the grave.

Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit.

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.

Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and the tang of the North Sea is never far away.

I do not believe that it is possible to teach a cat to obey; that is contrary to his nature.

one doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger.

Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw.

Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.

The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited.

Why couldn't you turn into a fireball when we were on the same team!

Be an artist, see the beauty not only with your eyes but also with your heart.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

I consider the law prohibiting the sharing of copies with your friend the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. It does not deserve respect.

It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place.

The most interesting people are never perfect.

Setting a good example for your children does nothing but increase their embarrassment.

If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.

That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children.