"Smart, bright, well-written....A book about cats as good as this one is rare." -- Smithsonian

"May be the most elegantly written, witty, perceptive statement about felines ever published." -- Philadelphia Inquirer

"Charming....Will soften the heart of even a certified ailurophobe." -- Publishers Weekly

"Perhaps the best aspect of the book, combined with Holland's style, is the appropriately low-grade temperature of the cat/human philosophizing--nicely situated between Sartre and Wild Kingdom." -- Trenton NJ Times

"An absolutely wonderful and sometimes hilarious and always soulful book." -- Mademoiselle