I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw.

Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.

Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit.

it is perfectly possible to converse with any cat, from prize-winning Siamese to alley tabby. Humans who are slow learners may start with a highly articulate Siamese and progress in time to the more sensitive and difficult business of talking to scared strays. Other people, naturally gifted, can talk to any cat right away.

I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.

one doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger.