Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.

Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.

Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify as deserving of names.

Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always claim his heart. He could never quite get a grip on what it was. It just seemed that whatever lay waiting "out there" was all too vast, too overwhelming for him to possibly ever make a dent in.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.