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"I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals."
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"Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw. Men made dogs, they took wolves and gave them human things--unnecessary intelligence, names, a desire to belong, and a twitching inferiority complex. All dogs dream wolf dreams, and know they're dreaming of biting their Maker. Every dog knows, deep in his heart, that he is a Bad Dog..."
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"Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race."
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"The dog is a gentleman, I hope to go to his heaven not man's."
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"As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed."
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"Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers."
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"The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals."
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"Years later, after other experiences with dogs, I wondered if their species were shaped and charmed to serve as four-legged guides able to assist in leading humanity back to our first-and lost-home. By the example of their joy and humility, by wanting nothing more than food and play and love, by the deep satisfaction that they take from those humble things, they belie all creeds of power and fame. Although they have the teeth to tear, it is by swish of tail and yearning eyes that they most easily get what they want."
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"It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around."
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"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."
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"Some cats are angry at being called cats. To achieve peace with them, never call them by their real name."
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"We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning."
Death
"I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people."
People
"People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier."
Marriage
"I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination."
Imagination
"I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals."
Animals
"They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises."
Exploration
"My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20."
Marriage
"I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school."
Science
"Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle."
Man
"Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write."
Learning
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