The great authors share their souls with us- "literally.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do.We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. [. . .] The animals need only be and do.We're yoked, and they're free. So to be with an animal is to know a little freedom.

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer's first duty is to use language well.

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.