“It's like coming home," said Webster and he wasn't talking to the dog. "It's like you've been away for a long, long time and then you come home again. And it's so long you don't recognize the place. Don't know the furniture, don't recognize the floor plan. But you know by the feel of it that it's an old familiar place and you are glad you came.""I like it here," said. Ebenezer and he meant Webster's lap, but the man misunderstood."Of course, you do," he said. "It's your home as well as mine. More your home, in fact, for you stayed here and took care of it while I forgot about it.”

“I can't go back," said Towser. "Nor I," said Fowler. "They would turn me back into a dog," said Towser. "And me," said Fowler, "back into a man.”

“...the world feels so big when you're out in the wide open. It's like you don't have a place in it when you don't have a home.""Your place is right here," I whispered, laying down and hugging her close.”

“Why did you choose to stay here?" (...)"I don't know," he said. "It's as if there's more oxygen here.”

“Well I come from a land,from a far away place, where the caravan camels roam.They will cut of your ear if they don't like your face, it's babaric, but hey,it's home.”

“That was the way with Man; it had always been that way. He had carried terror with him. And the thing he was afraid of had always been himself.”

“Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.”