A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.

If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will. We let human beings caress us because it is pleasant enough and calms them - but not her. The price is more than a cat can pay.

Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)

I feel a whole country growing inside me, thousands of years, millions of people, stupid, crazy, shrewd people, and all of them me. I never felt like that before, I never felt that there was anything inside me, even myself.

Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe, Sooner than I will live with you. Fish will come walking out of the sea, Sooner than you will come back to me.

Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.

If a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him, and I would have loved him very deeply after a while.