Dogs have important jobs, like barking when the doorbell rings, but cats have no function in a house whatsoever.

I wondered briefly if cats also came back after death, then dismissed the thought because as far as I had ever been able to tell, cats do not have a purpose.

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.

They weren't feral cats; they were his pets.

If human lives be,
for their very brevity, sweet,
then beast lives are sweeter still...

Sometimes she could swear that she saw, in Joe Grey's eyes, a judgment far too perceptive, a watchfulness too aware and intense for any cat.
Charlie didn't understand what it was about those two [cats]. Both had a presence that set them apart from other felines.
Maybe she just knew them better. Maybe all cats had that quality of awareness, when you knew them.