Allow yourself to see the good in people. Not every sinister face harbors a wicked heart.

I remember sitting in this cabin in Alaska one evening reading over the notes of all these encounters, and recalling Joseph Campbell, who wrote in the conclusion to ‘Primitive Mythology’ that men do not discover...

Wolf’s wool is the best wool, but it cannot be sheared, because the wolf will not comply. With knowledge as with wolves’ surliness, the student studies voluntarily, refusing to be less than individual. He “gives...

Oh deep winter snow, pale executioner, thou who delights in a slow, torturous death.

I never knew there were so many different ways to say good-bye

Only a sense of lightness, giddy and dizzying, like flight—of a burden that didn’t belong to me being lifted.Suddenly I knew the truth and the lights surrounding me exploded.I am free.

He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as himself.

I felt sorry for the inhabitants and went into the forest to admonish the wolf in God’s name not to eat any more sheep. I called him, he came—and do you know what his answer...

Men have always hated the wolf.””Why?” said the boy indignantly, suddenly looking very unhappy indeed.”Maybe because they see something in the wolf that they hate and fear in themselves. Maybe because wolves take their sheep...

And Esme remembered in a rush–the wolfsong, the haunting, lyrical spirals of it in the dawn quiet and the feeling of euphoria that had attended it. Even in recollection the howling uplifted her like the...

The black wolf’s curse awakes every time that a full moon points in the middle of the sky.

Wolf Star shines on wintry high;Gazing northward by and by.Ice and snow on shorelines lie;Wind and spirits haunt the sky.

Long after the other voices had dropped away, Sam kept howling, very soft and slow.When he finally fell silent, the night felt dead. Sitting was intolerable. I stood up, paced, clenched and unclenched my hands...

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

Do either of you even play baseball?

Jules was a proud little toy. She decided that she was going to work very hard to be the best wolf she could be.

Freedom without responsibility? What freedom is that? None at all.

In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us.

Justice is a social construct. It’s well known that the physical universe isn’t fair. Nevertheless, it’s difficult to decide which is more provoking: good people suffering or evil people prospering.

Lorth spoke a word and came into focus, though he had learned from experience that his features, the ghost-pale skin of a Northman with the gold-green eyes of a wolf, were almost as unnerving to...

The Native Americans know that wolves are mirrors for humans. What they show us are our strengths and weaknesses… When I lived with the wolves, I was proud of the reflection of myself. But when...

I hated being imprisoned in my own home, my wolf hated it.

Because I love you.

The Law of the Jungle NOW this is the Law of the Jungle — as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that...

What’s that supposed to mean? A wolf’s head on a stick. Big wolf barbecue tonight? Bring your own wolf?

Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.

Sometimes destiny switches the cards on you so that while you’re busy escaping from the dog, you find yourself facing the wolf

the beast who dreams of man and has so dreamt in running dreams a hundred thousand years and more. Dreams of that malignant lesser god come pale and naked and alien to slaughter all his...

My wolf was a cute guy and he was holding my hand. I could die happy.