A sentence worth writing

Delbert McClinton has his "sky blue ragtop Mustang, 1964." Richard Thompson has the infamous "Vincent Black Lightning, 1952." I don't have any of that. I like sentences. So it was fun this morning to find Verlyn Klinkenborg in The Times invoking a single sentence he'd read somewhere back up the line. It went like this:

I cannot see these cats...without thinking of a sentence by the writer Guy Davenport: "My cat does not know me when we meet a block away from home, and I gather from his expression that I'm not supposed to know him, either."

I read it to my family and they laughed. We've all seen that cat.