Knowing cats, a lifetime of cats, what is left is a sediment of sorrow quite different from that due to humans: compounded of pain for their helplessness, of guilt on behalf of us all.

Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.

Knowing cats, a lifetime of cats, what is left is a sediment of sorrow quite different from that due to humans: compounded of pain for their helplessness, of guilt on behalf of us all.

if you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.

When there's a war, people get married.

I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record.

I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an engineering problem.