A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans.

Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.

I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals.

The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?

We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.

"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

The fact that there are bigger injustices and wrongs doesn't make it right to sacrifice an innocent monkey. It doesn't alter the case at all.

I told some imprecisely imagined interlocutor that each year I hoped to have outgrown being moved by the autumn and each year I hadn't

Sentimentalist” is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse than to be cruel, which it isn’t.

I handle wisdom only after I just looked down, listened to and understood.

The only freedom of choice you have is the ability to define your own path and destiny.

When there is a true or useful thing, there is sure to be a counterfeit.

The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop we do.

Being alive hurts. I have found it best not to rush for the aspirin bottle. - A Severed Wasp

The unity of the Bible is one of the wonderful proofs of the inspiration of God's Word- that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.

To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.

I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more.