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.

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.

Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.

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

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

Who knows why men do anything?

I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women.