What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.

One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.".

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves!

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.