The cat is a wild animal that inhabits the homes of humans.
If you want to write, keep cats.
Cats don't need you that much. They like to come and get stroked now and then, and they need you to feed them. But other than that, they're not very demanding, are they? I quite like that.
[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.
People who don't like cats haven't been around them. There's the old joke: dogs have masters, cats have staff.
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catch mice and rats, and that's fun.
I treat my cat like she's my therapist or something, because I talk to her all the time, and as she's gotten older, she talks back. It's pretty funny.
I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.
If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work ... the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk lamp ... The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding.
I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband.
Finding a cat--or having a cat find you--can change your world as much as marriage, divorce, love, death, or even winning the lottery can, and sometimes more.
Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
Buttercup, miserable even with Prim’s constant attention, huddles in the cube and exhales cat breath in my face.
Honestly, what I have the most fun with, I just hang out with my cat, and I go online, and I talk to my followers, and I have real conversations with them.
When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.
You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.
I grew up with such an affinity to cats. I adore the way that they think and operate.
To anyone who has ever been owned by a cat, it will come as no surprise that there are all sorts of things about your cat you will never, as long as you live, forget. Not the least of these is your first sight of him or her.
The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the day. I think I'm more a part of their ritual.
Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life.
Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There's nothing to get excited about. They just know. They're saviours.
My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.
People want to marry me for companionship. No thanks! I've got my cats for that!
The majority of cats are very gregarious - they love each other so much; they enjoy living together and grooming each other.
