So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.

But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there.

The human is the only guilty animal.

... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.

Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.