I distinguish two types of human beings, Love people, who love the sky and the flowers, and Power People, who are essentially sold on naked power.

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

I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.

Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.

Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?

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.

If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else.