“People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.”

“Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.”

“A Persian Cat! Not an Iranian cat, no: an Iranian cat has a bomb under the body warmer!”

“Seventy million people will talk about seventy million solutions to the same problem.”

“I really had no control over my cat. Hell, who actually had control over any cat?”

“It would be very unlucky for cats if people in a body should discover how much more jolly it was to be out in the warm golden mist of moonlight, when all was so fresh and sweet, than tucked up in their heated bedrooms under the low ceiling that shuts out the stars.”

“How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? …Seventy percent. What the fuck?”

“A black cat among roses,
phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon,
the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still.
It is dazed with moonlight,
contented with perfume…”

“I
think that the
world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just
cats and
rain, rain and cats, very nice, good
night.”

“There’s seven people dead
On a South Dakota farm
Somewhere in the distance
There's seven new people born”