With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James — But we've not got so far as names.

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

So the lover must struggle for words.