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We're all animals, but we're a different sort of animal. Maybe they're better than us. They're more loyal. They're more pure. They're more simple. They're not neurotic. Well, there are some neurotic dogs.

Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.

Animals are thinking, feeling creatures. They're sensitive.

I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.

We're animals. A body is a body.

Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.

You don't know what mental telepathy exists from the human to the animal.

We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear.