… there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.

May 4, 1985. I am packing for a short trip to New York to discuss the cat book with Brion. In the front room where the kittens are kept, Calico Jane is nursing one black...

I DON’T HOLD WITH CRUELTY TO CATS.

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats…

To venture … close (to a lion) on foot … would mean the sudden shattering of any kindly belief that the similarity of the lion and the pussy cat goes much beyond their whiskers. But...

I walked through the house to the back porch and found the screen door covered top to bottom, side to side, with cats meowing for food. . . . They were so thick on the...

mmmmen stink! bossss stink! hungry

Sometimes I like her calm, unwild, gentle as a sleeping child,and wonder as she lies, a fur ring,curled upon my lap, unstirring — is it me or Tibbles purring?

I’m at a point in my life where I feel like I can’t go anywhere. Maybe I’ll try to coax my cat off my lap so I can get up and move.

Just got done giving my cat a haircut and eating dinner. The two events are unrelated, though I might cough up a hairball later on.

I believe in the power of love. Also, I like cats.

I sometimes rub a bag of potato chips, but honestly, it’s no substitute for petting a cat. I’m the sort if pet owner that doesn’t approve of high fructose corn syrup.

I’m trying to translate what my cat says and put it in a book, but how many homonyms are there for meow?

I smell like cat snuggles and sex, though from two different activities. I have just perfected my meatloaf-flavored ice cream, if you want to grab a spork.

Are you an aberration to your species?’ she cried. ‘Cats don’t look for approval!

Jaypaw narrowed his eyes. “I’m not as blind as you think.

One cat just leads to another.”[Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

I’ve been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions.

And the kittykats would have to erect scaffolding and a pulley to get him down. Mind you, I wouldn’t put that past them. Sometimes when they are behind the sofa supposedly purring, I think they...

At the railroad station he noted that he still had thirty minutes. He quickly recalled that in a cafe on the Calle Brazil (a few dozen feet from Yrigoyen’s house) there was an enormous cat...

Loud ringing noises, I’ve discovered, upset Mr.Peepers.

…if you’ve never been cussed out by a Siamese, you don’t know what profanity is all about!

Aubrey, crouching on a nearby counter, watched me with squinty eyes, apparently pondering why anyone would willingly immerse themselves in water ever, let alone for extended periods of time.

I like to search for class struggle in strange domains. For example it is clear that in classical Hollywood, the couple of vampires and zombies designates class struggle. Vampires are rich, they live among us....

Old Deuteronomy’s lived a long time; He’s a cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme a long while before Queen Victoria’s accession. Old Deuteronomy’s buried...

I hope people don’t take kittens on a whim, like they would a toy, then not care for them.

Jenny lacked any sense of property – she was constantly apologising to Yevgenia and asking for her permission to open the small upper window in order to let in her elderly tabby cat. Her main...

Cats cant speak, that’s common sense.-Yoruichi

Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They’re furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick — in love with themselves. When’s the last...

If we stay with animal analogies for a moment, owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas...

The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.

One can imagine that if humanity suddenly disappeared from the planet, the cat would shrug its shoulders, raise its tail, and return to its forest habitat, there to live as its ancestors have done for...

On the edge of a laughing teacupDid Kubla Kat decreeThe the corn fritter festooned with medalsShall make the brownies freeAnd so the walls turned to waterTo let our sorrows drownAs the chairs burned themselves for...

Cats are like mushrooms, only you’ll rarely ever hear me scream, “Get off my pizza!” to a pack of mushrooms.

If my love for cats were hydrogen, there’d be enough of it to give you skin cancer if you didn’t wear suntan lotion. The only sad part for me about getting a cat from the...

Are these black cats like the hare?””No. They’re smaller; they only want me to play with them. Fly away with them to a place on the other side of the moon. There’s a garden there,...

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. ‘Stop thinking’, swig, ’empty your head’, swig, ‘now, seriously empty your head’.

If I painted a dog statue to look like a cat, the people would pet it. But why paint that when I could paint politicians as honest, for-the-people people?

Love is a feel-good feeling, like feeling a cat’s fur while my hair is on fire and my grandpa is reciting the pledge of allegiance while staring at my star-spangle-bannered boxers.

You know what I should do?” Hoshino asked excited. “Of course,” the cat said. “What’d I tell you? Cats know everything. Not like dogs.

You can not live with a paw in each world.

Yawn. String-on-a-stick. Fine. I’ll come out and chase itto make you happy.

One of my biggest fears is that I’m going to die alone in my home, and my cats will eat me because I am too dead to open their food cans.

All those windows, and not a cat in them. All that light to bask in, wasted.

If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

She smiled again. “Do you like cat?” she said.”Yes,” said Richard. “I quite like cats.”Anaesthesia looked relieved. “Thigh?” she asked, “or breast?

When bored, find a little cat and watch it; when very bored, find two little cats and watch them!

He doesn’t seem very impressed,” Cimorene commented in some amusement.”Why should he be?” Kazul said.”Well, you’re a dragon,” Cimorene answered, a little taken aback.”What difference does that make to a cat?

We have three cats. It’s like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

Japanese goldfish,With your gossamer tail,You are the loveliest creatureI have ever seen.””Japanese kitten,Put your tongue back in where it belongsAnd go away.I know exactly what you are thinking.