As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.
Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.
Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?
A thing of beauty is a boy forever.
There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.