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.

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

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.

I do not believe that it is possible to teach a cat to obey; that is contrary to his nature.

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.