“It's very hard, for most of us to tolerate being loved.”

“It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.”

“The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.”

“From age four to five we are all romantics; we are all embryonic royalty, budding ballerinas, or intrepid astronauts; we are all fearless, open, affectionate, and beautiful.”

“Our listeners asked us:"What is chaos?"We're answering:"We do not comment on economic policy.”

“What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?”

“Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey--even to the point of disguising himself as that animal and mimicking its behavior.”