“The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.”

“And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?”

“What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together?”

“There are many examples of animals coming to surprising living arrangements...where an animal takes a human being or another animal to be one of it's kind.”

“I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal.”

“Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship.... And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings.”