Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment.

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.

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

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.

One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.

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.

Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.