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

It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax.

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

Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.

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

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

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