Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their lives fulfil…

- Irving Townsend

We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own, live within a fragile circle; easily and often breached. Unable to a…

- Irving Townsend

Another cat? Perhaps. For love there is also a season; its seeds must be resown. But a family cat is not replaceable like a wornout coat or a set of …

- Irving Townsend

Could the purr be anything but contemplative?

- Irving Townsend

No one shall deny me my own conclusions, nor my cat her reflective purr.

- Irving Townsend

It was not I who was teaching my cat to gather rosebuds, but she who was teaching me.

- Irving Townsend