I would rather start a family than finish one.

Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.