Japanese goldfish,
With your gossamer tail,
You are the loveliest creature
I have ever seen.

Japanese kitten,
Put your tongue back in where it belongs
And go away.
I know exactly what you are thinking.

The setting sun had turned the blue sky a brilliant orange, then soft pink merging to pearl; the plum velvet of night had come out of the east, spangled with stars.

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

She could not see how much there was to live for, that she was young and that one could build anew upon the ashes of failure.

Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.

There is the little matter of disposal of droppings in which the cat is far ahead of its rivals. The dog is somehow thrilled by what he or any of his friends have produced, hates to leave it, adores smelling it, and sometimes eats it.

If you like cats and have some, you get kittens; and if you like kittens and enjoy having them about, they grow up and you get more cats.

One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.

It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint ... office parties, artificial ... Christmas trees ... but future generations in search of their lost Christmases may well remember its innocence; yes, and its beauty, too.

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

Peter thought that he had noticed the shine of tears in her eyes, though of course it couldn't be so, since he had never heard of cats shedding tears. It was only later he was to learn that they could both laugh and cry.

You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.

No one has ever been able to discover how they make this subtle sound, and what is more, no one ever will. It is a secret that has endured from the very beginning of the time of cats and will never be revealed.

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

No game in the world is as tidy and as dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result so cleanly defined.

A cat doesn't linger over making it's desires felt.

It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.

Kittens can happen to anyone.