"The stories we tell about animals say more about us than they do about them."

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with authority, and the only way to speak with authority is to claim the right to tell the truth.

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.