Exercise, to qualify at all, must be lonely, painfu, humorless, and boring.

I was getting sick and tired of being lectured by dear friends with their little bottles of water and their regular visits to the gym. All of a sudden, we've got this voluntary prohibition that has to do with health and fitness. I'm not really in favor of health and fitness.

It's curious that throughout our history together, with no apparent effort, people have been able to think of the cat simultaneously as the guardian spirit of the hearth and home, and as the emblem of freedom, independence, and rootlessness.

Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all.

The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.

Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.

Our Revolution was born and raised in taverns.