As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

Unlike some people who have experienced the loss of an animal, I did not believe, even for a moment, that I would never get another. I did know full well that there were just too many animals out there in need of homes for me to take what I have always regarded as the self-indulgent road of saying the heartbreak of the loss of an animal was too much ever to want to go through with it again. To me, such an admission brought up the far more powerful admission that all the wonderful times you had with your animal were not worth the unhappiness at the end.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

People ask me what makes a good funeral, and I tell them the most important thing is your man in the casket. If you have a man of substance in there, you have the makings of a first-class funeral.

...one of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.

Relations between the sexes are so complicated that the only way you can tell if members of the set are going together is if they are married. Then, almost certainly, they are not.

What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.