Quotes About Observation

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, just look at the cats, you'll feel better, because they know that everything is, just as it is.

Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know.

I like to prowl ordinary places and taste the people- from a distance.

I met Betty on the street. I saw you with that bitch a while back. She's not your kind of woman. None of them are.

there are policemen in the street and angels in the clouds

when I am feeling low all I have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns.         I study these creatures.         they are my teachers.

we drove on and on, past little villages and both good things and bad things were happening to the people in those villages too, but I still was nothing but arms and ears and eyes and maybe there'd be either some good luck for me or more death tomorrow.

I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast we came to the ocean and then he looked at me and said, it's not pretty.

I sit on the couch watching her arrange her long red hair before my bedroom mirror. she pulls her hair up and piles it on top of her head- she lets her eyes look at my eyes- then she drops her hair and lets it fall down in front of her face. we go to bed and I hold her speechlessly from the back my arm around her neck I touch her wrists and hands feel up to her elbows no further.

Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right. Sam, I say, that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men.

alone tonight in this house, alone with 6 cats who tell me without effort all that there is to know.

I was still tough but it wasn't the same. I had to withdraw. I watched people from afar, it was like a stage play. Only they were on stage and I was an audience of one.

I looked around for a fly to kill

is there any wonder why the world is where it's at now? just notice the creature sitting near you in a movie house or standing ahead of you in a supermarket line. or giving a State of the Union Address. that the gods have let us go on this long this badly.

as the junkies junk as the alkies drink as the whores whore as the killers kill the albatross blinks its eyes the weather stays mostly the same.

my typewriter is tombstone still. and I am reduced to bird watching.

At lunchtime (10:24 p.m.) I went out and bought the L.A. Times.

He just stares. He's so quiet. That's the way we want him. Still water runs deep. Not with this one. The only thing that runs deep with him are the holes in his ears.

She was beginning to understand. Winners didn't shoot off their mouths. They were afraid of getting murdered in the parking lot. After the fourth race, a $22.80 winner, he turned again and told Katherine, "I had that one, ten across." She turned away. "His face is yellow, Hank. Did you see his eyes? He's sick." "He's sick on the dream. We're all sick on the dream, that's why we're out here.

I began counting each fool that passed me. I got up to 50 in two-and-one-half-minutes, then stepped into the next bar.

I view his furry storage tanks – what can a man think about while looking at a cat's nuts? Certainly not the sunken navies of great sea battles.

I had come to the racetrack after the other two funerals and had won. There was something about funerals. It made you see things better. A funeral a day and I'd be rich.

Nick, que esa cosa tan grande que está ahi empinada mientras hablas conmigo? -Ah, esto! Es mi barriga!

I like to prowl ordinary places and taste the people—from a distance. I don't want them too near because that's when attrition starts.