Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?

Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.

When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.

I've always been the long-term relationship, go-home-and-meet-mom girl.

I like to write with people I have a relationship with otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met.

There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.