16 Quotes by Carol Emshwiller

Whatever life brings, we'll share," she says, and "I can do no more than the best I can.

She makes a silent vow to be a vegetarian from now on even if she has to starve to do it. Better that than even the remote possibility of eating one's friends and fellow sufferers.

Maybe it’s animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting.

I always had plenty of ideas. I didn’t exactly have them. They grew – little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in.

It is important and salutary to speak of incomprehensible things,′ they said, and so we did till dawn.

Keep on. The work of the world is always done by creatures too tired to do it.

It’s American to be from somewhere else, and it’s American to go from East to West. It’s American to seek your fortune someplace other than where you are, or to be escaping something...