Time spent with a cat is never wasted.

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...

Writing only leads to more writing.

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.