Ratty

“And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.”
― C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet

“The trial became, predictably, complex; the computer-run court had nothing in its circuits to allow for the trial of five newborn infants for assault and battery, interference with officials in the performance of their duties, foul and opprobrious language, or several other things, singly or all in a lump.”
― Laurence M. Janifer , S.J. Treibich

“Truly, she thought, there was beauty in this fantastically retarded world...”
― Andre; Merwin Norton, Three Faces of Time / The Stars Are Ours!

“After them flyin' snakes, and floatin' spider-plants, and them yellow duck-dogs that keep peekin' at us from holes yonder-well, I can believe that we're gonna pick us apples offa pine trees, too.”
― Andre; Merwin Norton