The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar.

We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory is possible - that we simply recognize different things at different times and in different ways.

The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature.

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.

The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.(...) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.