It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.

You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.

No one has ever been able to discover how they [cats] make this subtle sound, and what is more, no one ever will. It is a secret that has endured from the very beginning of the time of cats and will never be revealed.

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had an ally.

A cat doesn't linger over making it's desires felt.