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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“He realised that in a town a man cannot live as he wishes, but as other people wish.”

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

“It is an eccentric and uniquely human approach to resources: like plowing under your farmland to make way for more lawns, or compromising your air quality in exchange for an enormous car.”