Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.

Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.

To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point

He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, "I love you, Mother." He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.

A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.