I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

Jesus died to save men - a small thing for an immortal to do - and didn't save many, anyway. But if he had been damned for the race, that would have been act of a size proper to a god, and would have saved the whole race.

I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.