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

suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon, you know. It can be the ultimate revenge, leaving a scar that a living person may carry to the grave.

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.

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

Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.

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

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