We were impelled to remain loyal for a while to the memory of Penny. It was a form of the old fashioned custom of going into mourning. It is not a qu…

- Derek Tangye

The pleasure and sadness of youth is that the speed of its passing is never thought about; and so you say that you will do this or that in a year, in…

- Derek Tangye

A cat has to be in a very bad mood if a human cannot coax him to purr.

- Derek Tangye

I do not mind having imaginary conversations with animals who are part of my life. The comfort of talking to one at a time of personal distress is so…

- Derek Tangye

How do you summon up courage to dismiss a cat who is paying you a compliment of sitting on your lap?

- Derek Tangye

His markings, month by month, became more beautiful, lines of autumn bracken colours with shapes which reminded me of currents on a quiet sea. True t…

- Derek Tangye

The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo.

- Derek Tangye