“Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella”

“There’s a dance in the old dame yet.”

“Fishing: a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.”

“my youth i shall never forgetbut there s nothing i really regretwotthehell wotthehellthere s a dance in the old dame yettoujours gai toujours gai”

“The wand waved; the Adam's Apple leapt, and they were off. What followed cannot be indicated typographically. But if a cat were a sawmill, and a dog were a gigantic cart full of tin cans bouncing through a stone paved street, and that dog and that cat hated each other and were telling each other so, it would sound much like it.”

“Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?”

“i look back on my lifeand it seems to me to bejust one damned kittenafter another”