[It might be his cat instincts that help with that--when you spend so long in one shape you tend to take on some of that shape's mannerisms after all, and cats are notorious for not caring one whit what anyone thinks of them, or what concerns them at all.]

You've not spent a great deal of time around people if you think that most of them are wise at all.

[Some of them have some sense sometimes, the greater number of them almost none to speak of.]

Still, they can be entertaining. Even if they're not, their lives are short.