I like dogs better than men and cats better than dogs and myself best of all, drunk in my underwear looking out the window.

The factories, the jails, the drunken days and nights, the hospitals have weakened and shaken me like a mouse in the mouth of a hip-cat: life.- from an Aug. 1965 letter to Jim Roman "On Cats

I felt like a still live fish on ice in a butcher’s counter on Friday morning.- On Cats

The cat is the beutiful devil. And here we can use the word, even without the “a.”- from a Dec. 21 1960, a letter to Sheri Martinelli"On Cats