“...which animal the ruler should impersonate depends strongly on what animals the followers are.”

“Asking about someone’s animal is the shifter equivalent of pulling a ruler and asking a guy to whip it out.”

“We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.”

“When Bauhaus designers adopted Sullivan's "form follows function," what they meant was, form should follow function. And if function is hard enough, form is forced to follow it, because there is no effort to spare for error. Wild animals are beautiful because they have hard lives.”

“The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth depends, from which all power proceeds.”

“He looks strong and animal and dominant, a beast of sex.”