I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.

I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly and pervasive ignorance.

Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better.

He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well.

Hemingway said: 'It don't come anymore.' So where did it go?