“I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how de...” — James Herriot Quote

“I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.”

“For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.”

“I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.”

“Tomorrow is the opportunity that is being nurtured in the darkness of your night.”

“He turned away, and suddenly she thought about the old children's story, where the stupid girl opens the box that God gave her, and all the evils of the world fly out, except Hope, which stays at the bottom; and she wondered what Hope was doing in there in the first place, in with all the bad things. Then the answer came to her, and she wondered how she could've been so stupid. Hope was in there because it was evil too, probably the worst of them all, so heavy with malice and pain that it couldn't drag itself out of the opened box.”