Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.

The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi.

There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.

The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.

Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.

...with a cat you stand on much the same footing that you stand with a fine and dignified friend; if you forfeit his respect and confidence the relationship suffers. The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.