Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment. Paul Gallico

I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often. Julio Cortázar

In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass. Charles Bukowski

Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. William S. Burroughs

Of all God’s creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat. Mark Twain

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. Joyce Carol Oates

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. Ernest Hemingway

Cats never strike a pose that isn’t photogenic. Lillian Jackson Braun

Time spent with cats is never wasted. Freud

In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat. Warren Eckstein

Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire. Stephen King, Pet Sematary

Holding up my
purring cat to the moon
I sighed. Jack Kerouac

Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn’t. Most people aren’t cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness…Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn’t. William S. Burroughs

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. Jean Cocteau

Outside, the north wind, coming and passing, swelling and dying, lifts the frozen sand drives it a-rattle against the lidless windows and we may dear sit stroking the cat stroking the cat and smiling sleepily, prrrr. William Carlos Williams

Books. Cats. Life is good. Edward Gorey

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. Edgar Allan Poe

What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under your palm, the warmth when you wake on a cold night, the grace and charm even in a quite ordinary workaday puss. Cat walks across your room, and in that lonely stalk you see leopard or even panther, or it turns its head to acknowledge you and the yellow blaze of those eyes tells you what an exotic visitor you have here, in this household friend, the cat who purrs as you stroke, or rub his chin, or scratch his head. Doris Lessing

I simply can’t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course. Mark Twain