Because human beings suffer so much more than ducks.”
“You might not think so if you were a duck.

Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I'm very likely to suffer that same fate; my work will probably not be remembered, and if any of it is, if any of those novels is fated to be one of those novels that is still being read 50 or 100 years after it was written, I've probably already written it.

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Human beings have always been mythmakers.

What I'm interested in is human beings alone.