All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?

Perhaps, he thought, true pure love, like all flowers, flourished best with its roots in muck and mud. Perhaps that was a law of life that held everything together.

That question is too good to spoil with an answer.

I never understood how anyone could feel small compared with the universe. After all, man knows how overwhelmingly large it is, and a few others things besides, and that means he is not small. The fact that man has discovered all this precisely proves his greatness.

All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?

But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute.

Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.