human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.

It is natural to want to have a future.

Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

The nature of this flower is to bloom.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.