“Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.”

“I don't want Church to be like all those dead pets! I don't want Church to ever be dead! He's my cat! He's not God's cat! Let God have His own cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine!”

“They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep.”

“I’m a cat. I respect the sanctity of sleep.”

“The only time I have problems is when I sleep.”

“All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.”

“Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.”

“For us the most important thing is to be visual, and for the cats watching us to have fun. This is all we want. We get very upset if people get bored when we're only half way through smashing the second set. Then all of a sudden they hear Arnold Layne and they flip all over again.”

“Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.”

“When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.”