It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it

...lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.

It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

I was the Colleen McCullough of 1971.

if you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the apparent truth divides into two opposing truths and then you have to try to reach beyond them to grasp the ultimate truth, their synthesis.

It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it