Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days

Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean.

It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and smile.

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.