Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word.

The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.