North Korea is a famine state. In the fields, you can see people picking up loose grains of rice and kernels of corn, gleaning every scrap. They look pinched and exhausted. In the few, dingy...

Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses’s lap and began to purr. ‘The creature oozes like a furry slug,’ said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.

Every time I see my cat licking its asshole I think about my ex wife. But that’s how nostalgia works, right? We only remember the best of the available memories.

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What’s furry, has four legs, and meows? My dinner, before I killed and cooked it.

I’ve gone astray. It’s better to cook with a stray than eat your own cat.

A cat’s meow can be a scream, a laugh, a sigh, a hello, a yes, and even an I love you.

I cried so hard after I put my cat to sleep. I guess I shouldn’t have cried so hard, because with all my sobbing, I ended up waking it up.

There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.

Meow.

I want to start a business making mint-flavored sunshine that comes in a can half full of meow-free rainbows. (Leprechauns sold separately.)

We have to let the Warrior Code rule our hearts. The death of a warrior does not mean victory.

I explained it loudand clear. What part of “meow”don’t you understand?

In my head, the sky is blue, the grass is green and cats are orange.

We’ve always taken in homeless cats.

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

Cats are the visible angels of the cities! There is always an eye of a cat observing you somewhere!

When the man was disgraced and told to go away, he was allowed to ask all the animals whether any of them would come with him and share his fortunes and his life. There were...

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good first step would be to build up a critical mass of...

Neither man nor any animal can enjoy life to the full without taking some risks to life or limb.

Here’s a random factoid: I like cats. And here’s another: I like red wine.

If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can’t learn any other way.–Mark Twain

A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all…much of the magic of the heather beds would vanish if, as we bent over them, there...

Ithink that theworld should be full of cats and full of rain, that’s all, justcats andrain, rain and cats, very nice, goodnight.

There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.

It all began with a bucket of eggs.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

There was fried chicken in the litter box, so I helped myself and took a shit. I am a cat lover and a fan of KFC. I always take mine to go.

As a storyteller, I appreciate a great tale. As a cat lover, I appreciate a great tail.

How would you define love to an eight-year-old aardvark from Argentina who hears angularly, rather than linearly? I don’t know, but let me check and see if Helen Keller wrote a dictionary that’s touchable, like...

I’m selling cat fur by the pound. It’s brand new—never been petted. (Meows sold separately).

Mr. Fizzlebush.” He will need his litter box changed daily, the finest dry cat food, and fourteen bottles of your finest champagne (he is royalty, after all). His Majesty Juan Carlos is not to be...

Em, I am trying to have an important conversation!” shouted Seylin. “I will not change into a cat!

Men and the pursuit of them are strongly intertwined with my mental health. I would say, in my defensive defense, that the problem with being a serial monogamist is, there isn’t anybody random or unimportant:...

A window—it’s more entertaining than TV. Just ask a cat looking out, or a man looking in on a life he desires.

I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.

Cats are people, and the sooner the world accepts that fact, the better off the world will be.

A dog is a dog, a bird is a bird, and a cat is a person.

The world would probably be better if people were put in carriers and cats roamed free.

Me-EHH-UF-ow

i wish i had 15-20 cats that would serve as a blanket, like if i moved they would adjust to my new position, that would be good

Cats may walk by themselves, but there are times when they need our support.

A university campus is a community just as any other. If the community has a problem with free roaming cats, they have a responsibility to deal with it over the long term.

Rousseau pounced. Men who dislike cats were tyrannical: “They do not like cats because the cat is free and will never consent to become a slave.

… 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...