Anything is better than stagnation.

At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society.

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.

There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.

Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.

It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.