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 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.

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.

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.

There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Your father... doesn't work late for you to pinch his dinner.

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And with great confidence comes great freedom for the actor.

There's more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.

Eating a little was like vomiting a little, just as bad as a lot.

The sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea.

The solid waste is returned to Earth with the shuttle. If we [astronauts] ever dump solid waste overboard, it's going to give new meaning to wishing upon a falling star.

You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is a feeling, nearly, though very briefly, of shock and grief.

I like smudgy black eyes and pale lips for evening. Red lipstick looks great on other girls, but its too much on me.