All We Can Hope For Is That

I'm Not An Animal Lover If That Means You Think Things Are Nice If You Can Pat Them, But I Am Intoxicated By Animals.

I Suffer Much Less Than Many Of My Colleagues. I Am Perfectly Able To Go To Australia And Film Within Three Hours Of Arrival.

I Would Love To See A Giant Squid. Very Few People Have Seen Them. And Only About Half A Dozen People Have Seen One Alive.

It Is Curiosity, Quite Right-a Divine Curiosity. A Characteristic Of The Gods Is Curiosity.

Sentimentalising Is Anathema, As Far As I Am Concerned. It Leads You Into Ethical Problems About Violence And Killing And Eating Meat. The Whole World Becomes Topsy-survy If You Impose Moralities That Were Evolved Within Human Society On What A Blowfly Or What A Parasite Does... There Are Lots Of Emotions You Can Deduce From An Animal's Behaviour That Are Correct, But When You Start Saying It's Feeling Guilty Or Thinking Or A Loved One Or Mourning, You Must Be Very Careful Of Those Feelings.