We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we try to prevent it. We know we can't win, but we're driven to give him a good fight.

The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.

The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.

The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.