Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.

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.

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

Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.

Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.

Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.

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.