Jonathan Franzen Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. August 17, 1959
Birthday: August 17
Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay...cats were all about using people
source: Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.548, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
topic: Country, Using People, Heart, Sociopath, Domesticated Animals, True Heart
