Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.

Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

Shared laughter is erotic too.

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

Connections are made slowly sometimes they grow underground.

In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry a yam of a woman of butter and brass.

Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly and that is one of the sources of my writing

Long hair is considered bohemian which may be why I grew it but I keep it long because I love the way it feels part cloak part fan part mane part security blanket.

The best gift you can give is a hug one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.

We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.

Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

I like cats. I used to have a lot of cats, but I don't anymore, now I just have a dog. It does take a certain temperament to have a cat, as they do have certain personalities.

We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

I've always been mad about cats.

We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.

My mum loves cats so I took her to see the lion cubs which at about a year old are actually quite big. She wasn't scared at all and went straight over and kissed one on the mouth! She thought they were just like her pets at home.

I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning.

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

We've gotten involved in cat rescue - we take them in and find homes for them. I've always loved cats. I saw how homeless cats were living out there. We take them in, put out flyers.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

All cats are grey in the dark.

Actually, I don't hate cats, I'm just kind of afraid of them.