“Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.”
“Postscript: H - Bring warm clothes and a cat”
“Cats have tongues with the texture of bricks, and fur as warm and soft as blankets.”
“People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.”
“A cat is a responsibility after all. And feeding and keeping and caring about a stupid fat cat isn't much, isn't much in the entirety of what counts for being a person and the huge range of what people do,but it is something. It is something and it's something that's warm and that I still have.”
“...I regard cats as one of the great joys in the world. I see them as a gift of highest order.”