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Of all the creatures in the world that really frighten me - the hyena in Africa, the great white shark - leopard seals are near the top of the list. They're killers. If my team spots one, they'll pull me out of the water.

I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.

If it's a slow race you have to be on your guard. You have to be patient, but I prefer that.

Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.

The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race.

I can see every monster as they come in.

I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

I do believe that there are monsters out there - and that they are monsters.