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.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

Sooner or later, everyone has to meet his match.

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

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

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