“In a society so estranged from animals as ours, we often fail to credit them with any form of language. If we do, it comes under the heading of communication rather than speech. And yet, the great ...”

“And there, next to me, as the east wind blows in early fall, a season open to great migrations, are those lives, threading the air and waters of the sea, that come out of an incomparable darkness, ...”

“True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.”

“Friends are the sunshine of life.”

“Make all good men your well-wishers and then in the years' steady sifting some of them will turn into friends.”

“The best-loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.”

“In a universe where all life is in movement, where ever fact seen in perspective is totally engaging, we impose stillness on lively young bodies, distort reality to dullness, make action drudgery. ...”

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ”

“When you're a kid all you know is that your dad puts on his suit or overalls and vanishes from your life until nightfall. Sometimes my pops came back exhausted and scarlet-eyed, as if he'd been eng...”