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

The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited.

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

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

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

Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.

Some brave chrysanthemums still stood in the country gardens, but they looked like bedraggled survivors of a battle, barely able to hold their tattered banners upright. October was at the gates and autumn was in full retreat.