“The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.”

“Time is what turns kittens into cats.”

“You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.”

“We can never possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.”

“Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.”

“One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life.”

“I will now say, not only to our delegate to Congress, but to the Elders who leave the body of the Church, that he thought that all the cats and kittens were let out of the bag when brother Pratt went back last fall, and published the Revelation concerning the plurality of wives: it was thought there was no other cat to let out. But allow me to tell you, Elders of Israel, and delegates to Congress, you may expect an eternity of cats, that have not yet escaped from the bag. Bless your souls, there is no end to them, for if there is not one thing, there will always be another.”

“Don't worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time.”

“There is some kind of juice in our brains that makes us only care about what's in front of us right this minute. Even if we know something different will happen later and we should think about that too. […] If I could teach you one thing, Preston, that's it. Think about what's coming at you later on.”

“The past is not yet past. When things happen, the only way we can make sense of it is by telling the story about the past – realising where prejudices come from. And the point would be not only to spin a story about racial violence but to tell how our ancestors have bravely and creatively overcome these things.”