“I really craved the company of animals – the wordless simplicity of it. Even now, with my cat Morrissey, I cherish the moments that I’m absolutely alone with him, and the unrecorded tenderness that no one will ever know of – the simplicity of “Oh, I’m just here, with this cat.” I don’t even feed him that much any more, ’cos Lynne, the housekeeper, does that now. But he seems to want something from me that isn’t food, and perhaps that thing is love. My.”
