Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?

The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.

It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.

The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you

There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

The opposite of love is not hate; it's indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.