The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.

And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer to have others provide the food ... Some of them do. There must have been a split between the cats who accepted domestication and those who did not.

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

I knew that I no longer wanted to take junk. If I could have made one decision, it would have been no more junk, ever, but when it came to the process of quitting I did not have the drive. It gave me a terrible feeling of helplessness to watch myself break every schedule I set up, as though I did not have control over my actions.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

The price an artist pays for doing what he wants is that he has to do it.