If you want to be a novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is to keep a pair of cats.
With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity and courage that cats have, how many of us, would be capable of becoming cats?
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating little friends, who gave us just enough of their regard and compliance to make us hunger for more.
The really great thing about cats is their endless variety. One can pick a cat to fit almost any kind of decor, color scheme, income, personality and mood. But under the fur, whatever color it may be, there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world's free souls.