I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.
The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.
The further you go in writing the more alone you are.
Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.