“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.”
“And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor.”
“If forced to choose, Giacometti once said, he would rescue a cat from a burning building before a Rembrandt.”
“One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with human language than the criteria for judging cats at a cat show have to do with mammalian biology.”
“I hated cats. I was a dog lover," Des says with a shrug. "What's the point of a cat? They're not affectionate. But that's because it's not my cat. I mean, your wife wouldn't jump on my lap. That's because she's your wife, not mine. Until you have your own cat, you really don't understand.”
“Cats do not enjoy being reminded of debts.Cats don not incur in debts.”