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

Dogs never lie about love.

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.

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.

Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.

She knew Neal loved her. Good for him for realizing it wasn't enough to make him happy. That was very mature of him. He was probably saving them both a lot of heartache.

It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.

Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

There is no armour against fate.

Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

What's the difference between tough love and acting like a jerk?