We are often more merciful to our animals than we are to each other.

It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all to soon, the very words "justice," "compassion," "society," "struggle," "evil," would be unheard echoes on an empty air.

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?

It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.

Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.

Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.