Morton 93: "Our human world is shared with all kinds of other tattered, broken worlds. The world of spiders, the world of tigers, the world of bacteria."
"This cat isn't a guest in my house; it's a member of the family, which isn't really my family, and I can think this not by elevating the cat into some special condescendingly endowed status, but by noticing that my perforated world intersects with his."