Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility.

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Beyond domestic animals and our response to their fealty and affection, we have a peculiar charge concerning the wild animals which supply our clothes, food and adornments.

Nobody dreams of music in hell, and nobody conceives of heaven without it.

We have abolished human bondage because it cursed those who imposed it. It is now our bounden duty to oppose cruelty to those creatures of our common Father which share with man the mystery of life.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside.

I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.

Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.

No person writes to win awards.

Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

An infinity of forest lies dormant within the dreams on one acorn.