A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

One cat just leads to another."

[Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.

The cat has too much spirit to have no heart

Never mistake motion for action.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.