Dumb dog. I bought a dog whistle. He won't use it.

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

I think I am slowly becoming an anarchist, that this is only another label for my privateness, and I think that you will understand this in the sense of being against collectivity.

Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end...

Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

I think that we definitely have opportunities to share our love and support with other people.

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

This is a collaborative enterprise," she says. "You have to surround yourself with good people and help them to do what they do well, as opposed to micromanaging.