We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential part of the economy.

The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you.

Thank you for being interested. Doesn't sound much but it meant just about everything.

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers.

From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength.

A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.