How do they find out with the experiments?''...one way they can find out a whole lot is to make an animal ill and then try different ways to make it better until they find one that works.''But isn't that unkind to the animal?''Well, I suppose it is...but I mean, there isn't a dad anywhere who would hesitate, is there, if he knew it was going to make [his child] better? It's changed the whole world during the last hundred years, and that's no exaggeration.

One cloud feels lonely.

If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom, for it is sticking out of the hole.

They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.

The Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.

Rabbits need dignity and above all the will to accept their fate.

Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.