There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.

Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked my cheek as I used to stoke his chops. A human caress from a cat. I felt very meagre and ill-educated that I could not purr.

All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.

no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.

The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.

noise is a pollution.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.