Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it, and ourselves. They are innocent sufferers in a hell of our making.

Dogs never lie about love.

Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair...they feel.

Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core.

We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us.

Dogs love us not only because we feed them, walk them, or groom them, or protect them, but because we are fun. How astonishing!

Hardly any animal can look as deeply disappointed as a dog to whom one says "no."

The curiosity of cats is, like their affection, of a purity and intensity rarely seen in humans. We would be jaded when faced with the fiftieth paper bag. Not so our cats.

Us" versus "them" is not in our genes. It is something we learn.

Swimming the ocean a giant brain watches us.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Cherish all.Depend on few.Hurt none.Love everyone.

Pen in Barack Obama hands is far more dangerous than any other president, at least in modern history, if not ever.

A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences.

All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.

And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.

What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.

I'm one of those people who fiercely guards their privacy, so I hate doing interviews.

America has to stand by our allies. I think the tension that existed between Israel and the United States was very unfortunate.

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.