A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug.

The cat is, above all things, a dramatist.

Dogs have owners, cats have staff.

He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone, this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls, My cat.

But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.

All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority.

Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.

I will speak of love until you go mad and join me in my mad worship of love.

Have you seen what wolves do to their prey? But they do mate for life.

It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

I slept for over a full day, as you know, but I won’t say I rested.

I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

There's so much there, there's so much to heal for.

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.

And thrice do I say to thee...bite me.

I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting.