“If forced to choose, Giacometti once said, he would rescue a cat from a burning building before a Rembrandt.”
“Wow. What'd he do to deserve that? Rescue orphans from a burning building? If so, you might want to make sure he didn't set the building on fire in the first place.”
“I had a dream my house was on fire, and I tried to rescue all the cats—and none of the politicians. You can burn my house, but don’t you dare burn my coffee.”
“Cat rescue is like a virus," says Des placidely about the cat obsession that has taken over his life. "And once you're infected, it's incurable.”
“Dangerous to me, that sexuality, because I'd been burned by that flame once before and would be forever scorched.”
“I said nothing. If she wasn't careful, everyone would rush out of her life, life out of a burning building.”