"I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to one side and go, 'I'm doing something completely different here.'"

-- Simon Beaufoy

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“It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon.”
“I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, 'Children's books?' Maybe it's something about my face.”
“prayer is nothing more than thought. It is a yearning of the heart.”
“There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others.”
“I think that one way of diffusing an insult is to turn it around and laugh at yourself - that's a way of coping with it - and another is to just ignore it.”
“Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.”

Source : Marc Bekoff (2007). “Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect”, p.171, Shambhala Publications
“I don't like sleeping in a different place every night, but I do like meeting new people.”

Source : Interview with Christian Filardo, logger.believermag.com. November 27, 2013.
“Any story worth telling is worth embellishing.”

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